She Gave Them A Smile Poem by Mantrana Mahi Agarwal

" I'm not different, I'm not strange.
I'm me"
She uttered those words staring at the mirror
She was brave on the inside
But from inside she was full of chaos.
Those horrible people, those horrible words
And of course, all her mother said was
"Don't care about them dear, they'll go away"
She was beautiful, she was amazing
But if only those horrible people couldlook beyond her flaws
Why was she wasting her time on those people,
I don't know till date
The leap of faith she took was very risky
Anything and everything could happen to the first penguin
She was so afraid of failure, her boat sank
before it could even start to float
But then one day she vanished and was never found again
Where she went, no one knows
But when shecame back she was a force to reckon with
She became one of those people
Most people desire to meet
Her secret to care only about what those who care think
And she grew.
And when those horrible people came back,
All she gave them was a smile
For she didn't have time to waste on them
She was finally free of the cage which once held her
Because all she did was let go
as the past was over
the Present is who she was
and the future is where her dreams meet reality
Yes, where the perfectly imperfect her shows the world who she is
The moon on a moonless night