Little Did She Know

On the first day 

The little girl went to school 

Wearing her favourite dress 

Little did she know 

She would be sent back home 

Saying she was not "appropriately dressed"

For dress codes were only meant for girls to cover-up right?

Growing up she was bullied by people

Saying "you are too fat to be pretty"

She looked in the mirror trying not to feel disgusted by her own reflection

Little did she know

Her beautiful soul would be measured in pounds

For people said beauty comes in all sizes, but none believed it.

Graduating she got her dream job

Worked her butt off day and night

Little did she know 

No matter what efforts she puts in she'd never get equal pay or position.

For the fact that women are equal is still considered as an "ideology".

Marrying the man of her dreams

Expecting them to be equal partners for life

Little did she know 

Even after a tiring day at work, house chores and children were her responsibility

For sometimes women create own heartbreaks through expectations.

Even after all the injustice, she had been through

People wondered how she still had the courage to go

And how even after all the damage done, she was not shattered

Little did they knew that just by calling herself a woman made her utterly whole and complete.

Cause she was a phoenix who would burn, only so that she could emerge from her ashes again.

To become the heroine of her own legend.