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Bodies That Refused The Blueprint: Girls the World Tried to Reshape
<p style="text-align: center; "><strong>They said she was too heavy,</strong></p><p style="text-align: center; "><strong>too narrow,</strong></p><p style="text-align: center; "><strong>too wide,</strong></p><p style="text-align: center; "><strong>as if her body was a battle</strong></p><p style="text-align: center; "><strong>and they fought from every side.</strong></p><p style="text-align: center; "><strong><br/></strong></p><p style="text-align: center; "><strong>She learned to hide her softness</strong></p><p style="text-align: center; "><strong>like it lived in open flame,</strong></p><p style="text-align: center; "><strong>every comment carving shadows</strong></p><p style="text-align: center; "><strong>and whispering her name</strong></p><p style="text-align: center; "><strong>in ways that hurt more deeply</strong></p><p style="text-align: center; "><strong>than anyone could claim.</strong></p><p style="text-align: center; "><strong><br/></strong></p><p style="text-align: center; "><strong>Some girls taped their curves</strong></p><p style="text-align: center; "><strong>to fit the <em>hourglass</em> myth,</strong></p><p style="text-align: center; "><strong>some begged their bones to vanish,</strong></p><p style="text-align: center; "><strong>some carved their skin with grief,</strong></p><p style="text-align: center; "><strong>believing pain could barter</strong></p><p style="text-align: center; "><strong>for a <em>slimmer</em> kind of peace.</strong></p><p style="text-align: center; "><strong><br/></strong></p><p style="text-align: center; "><strong>But a body isn’t wrong</strong></p><p style="text-align: center; "><strong>for daring to exist,</strong></p><p style="text-align: center; "><strong>for growing past the borders</strong></p><p style="text-align: center; "><strong>someone else insists</strong></p><p style="text-align: center; "><strong>are the “right” ones.</strong></p><p style="text-align: center; "><strong><br/></strong></p><p style="text-align: center; "><strong>A body is a rhythm</strong></p><p style="text-align: center; "><strong>that refuses to be still,</strong></p><p style="text-align: center; "><strong>a stubborn, quiet anthem</strong></p><p style="text-align: center; "><strong>written by pure will</strong></p><p style="text-align: center; "><strong>to stay alive.</strong></p><p style="text-align: center; "><strong><br/></strong></p><p style="text-align: center; "><strong>For every girl who trembled</strong></p><p style="text-align: center; "><strong>under someone’s careless view:</strong></p><p style="text-align: center; "><strong>you don’t need to break or starve</strong></p><p style="text-align: center; "><strong>to fit a shape they drew.</strong></p><p style="text-align: center; "><strong>You’re allowed to breathe and stay</strong></p><p style="text-align: center; "><strong>exactly as you grew.</strong></p>
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