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Vandana Singh

Abstract

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Vandana Singh

Abstract

A Five Year To Eighteen Year

A Five Year To Eighteen Year

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My parents don't sleep in the same bed.

To a six-year-old girl,

That never mattered.

But to a seven-year-old girl, it does.

She knows that other kids

Have parents who sleep together,

In the same bed,

Every night.

To a seven-year-old girl,

It doesn't matter that her parents

Don't talk about stuff.

But an eight-year-old girl knows.

Other parents have conversations,

Small ones, big ones.

An eight-year-old girl doesn't know

What an arranged marriage is.

But a nine-year-old does.

What a nine-year-old doesn't know

Is that her parent's fight.

But a ten-year-old girl knows

That her mother thinks her father isn't enough

And her father can't stand her mother.

Fortunately, a ten-year-old girl

Doesn't know

About divorces.

But an eleven-year-old girl does.

She also knows that the only reason

Her parents are still married

Is because they can't get rid of her.

A twelve-year-old knows

That she's a burden

A constant reminder

Of two lives gone astray.

A fifteen-year-old young woman knows

That whatever her life brings her

A sad broken marriage shouldn't be included.

A sixteen-year-old girl knows better

Then to call her friends over for a night out.

What if they find

That her parents are messed up?

An eighteen-year-old girl knows

That she wasn't the product of love

But of a tradition.

Of hate.

Of unsaid things.

Ripped stitches.

Lifeless birthdays.

Eighteen-year-old looks at every other five-year-old girl

And wishes she never finds out.


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