Out Of The Window

High heels and dark lipstick Short skirts and bare shoulders She walked while society tore her confidence "Oh, she has no character", they said And she heard the haunting melody again Gory flashbacks streaking her memories Carrying the burden of trauma and pain She walked while society ridiculed her "Oh, poor girl with no self-respect", they said And she heard the haunting melody again Sun baked and short tresses Forced to smear herself with 'special' concoctions She walked while society termed her ugly "Oh, she will get no attention", they said And she heard the haunting melody again The different shes snowball into a they Hit by hurling labels, norms and stereotypes They heard the haunting melody again Yet again, from the shes different from them 

Blackout or negative poetry is a form of poetry in which few words are selected from an existing text and highlighting them in comparison to other words in order to create meaningful lines. Interesting connections can be formed between words that were previously not linked to each other or were structured to mean something different. Often such poetry is created using pages from old fiction novels for its colourful vocabulary. Here is an attempt at creating not a poem but a meaningful line from a newspaper where the choice of words in a single article is slightly repetitive. A home, A den of protection, Semblance of care.  Trauma and fear, With a sense of shame.  Mental turbulence of, Entering a crucial stage.