Stigma Poems

Dark Skinned

Don't wear anything too bright
And absolutely stay away from white.
Oh dear, finding you a guy
Would be your parents' plight !

Try this remedy and that cream,
With the hope of a fair skin to gleam;
But all it did was to make
My inferiority complex to scream.


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Dark Skinned

Don't wear anything too bright
And absolutely stay away from white.
Oh dear, finding you a guy
Would be your parents' plight !

Try this remedy and that cream,
With the hope of a fair skin to gleam;
But all it did was to make
My inferiority complex to scream.


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  Hemangi Mali (1 poems about Stigma)
  March 9, 1998 - India