Sorry, do I look like a mangy reptilian to you?
Do the scars of my body frighten you?
Frowzy burnt skin make you want to puke?
Obtund appendages make you feel pity for me?
And glabrous scalp make you realise that I don't belong to your coterie?
Regardless, the beauty standard codes borne out of a pigeonhole
Mutilating my conscious won't be an easy task for I possess a robust mind with a beguiling soul.

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Don't let the filters
the fillers and correctors
smoothen the nooks,
the crevices, the scars.

Why are you so insistent
on being even marble
imitating smooth silk
when these projections,
lumps, indentations
are your characterizations?

Why do you want
to be plastic
when you were born human?

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Grace Stays !!
😌
Days goes by, age goes by, weekends goes by & when we look back - Grace Stays!!
Even with little wrinkles,
with newly Grey hair - Grace Stays !!
Few occasions we super confident,
well at other a little less,
just a charming smile &...Grace Stays!!

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Love being skin-deep- all that jazz:
Who's delved deeper the color of a crow,
Fascinated and taken is as the beau?
Alone, in the hintelands freaky forlorn,
It hops between a tree and cliff-lovelorn!

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"होना तो ये था कि दोनों ही एक दूसरे के सौंदर्य में डूब कर प्रेमी हो जाते। एक दूसरे को प्रेयसी समझ ख़तूत लिख पाते। लेकिन हुआ ऐसा कुछ भी नहीं।
सौंदर्य का सारा भार आया सिर्फ एक कांधे पर और दूसरे को मिला उसके रसास्वादन का अधिकार..
ये प्रेम नहीं राजनीति थी।
इसमें कहीं भी बराबरी नहीं थी।"

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सौंदर्य मुक्त किस्म का होना चाहिए। ऐसा न हो कि उस पर किसी एक किस्म के सौन्दर्य का लबादा हो, जिसे सामने वाला अपनी कंडीशनिंग या सुविधानुसार किसी पर आरोपित करे।

जितनी उस चेहरे पर ममता दिखे, उतना ही आकर्षण, उतना ही आत्मविश्वास और उतनी ही उसमें स्वायत्तता झलके। अपनी महत्ता पहचान सकने का गर्व भी दिखाई दे।

उसकी आंखें इतनी सुंदर हों, जितनी आजादी के सपने में होती हैं। और मुस्कान ऐसी जो सौंदर्य के सभी मानकों पर तिरछी निगाह डालते हुए उस पर चोट करें।

ऐसा सौंदर्य सामुदायिक होना चाहिए।

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"Looks don't matter to me, I believe in inner beauty", he said to his friend.




"Need a fair, slim, exceptionally beautiful, convent educated girl for a well settled, Delhi based Engineer", read his matrimonial proposal.

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Being a Plus Size person, is the most Negative thing in
"The World of Beauty Standard".

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Under the shackles of the
society's beauty standards,
many women are enslaved
to the society without them
even realising it!

By showing your body,
neither you are free and
by covering ourselves
nor are we oppressed.

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