I never smiled with my teeth
Do you think you can threaten me with pain? Before I could even speak, my mom mutilated my flesh, pierced with a white hot needle because "I won't even remember" and she was right, I don't. But the scars are permanent and I can embellish them with earrings. Pain for us is constant, is ever present. Before our first period we already suffered physical pain alien to yours. Our scalps being pulled by hours, cute little shoes that rip the flesh from our Achilles' tendon, clothes so uncomfortable and prickly, the glitter is hard on our skin. All of that without losing our smiles. You know about pain from the other side, from the screams that pierce through the mist of the unknown. You are scared of those screams because you don't know about pain. About our pain. So the external shouts we sometimes are allowed to shout reach you and you think those are a siren's song. A song from the unknown. But you can't threaten me with the unknown because I'm not...