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Mannat Dhanda Poem
They see a girl with attitude.
I see a girl with walls as high as a fortress — built to protect her losing sanity, or the innocence that was once brutally crumbled.
They see a girl with defenses.
I see a girl who flinches at loud sounds, at a single touch — who has darkness in her eyes and numbness in her body.
They see a girl so strong.
I see a girl barely holding it together, hoping for death, smiling through her pain.
They see a girl who's quiet.
I see a girl who stopped shouting — not because the pain vanished, but because the people did.
I see someone who stopped caring, who stopped offering opinions.
They see a girl so successful.
I see a girl who had to succeed — not for fame, but to survive, to prove she wasn’t a loser, to forget her demons.
I see a girl who smiles while crying inside — who cares for everyone, even when they left her alone.
I see myself in this girl.
Only to realize that I’m standing in front of a mirror —
Far more broken than her.
Or maybe…
Than me.
Copyright © Mannat Dhanda | Year Posted 2026
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Mannat Dhanda Poem
What it's like to grow up
From sleeping soundly to thousands of sleepless nights,
From laughing because u want to, to laughing to hide ur pain
From listening to music for fun to making it a way to relax to forget everything,
From watching the drama in shows to handling ur own life's drama
From having pure hearts to having broken one's
From fighting with ur siblings, to trying to put in an effort to even start a talk
From crying because u r physically hurt to crying because of mental pain
From thinking of forever happy to realising all these are just lies
From fighting with parents for toys to fighting with them for freedom
From loving urself to just trying to again love urself
From giving all ur attention to things that mattered to just giving up on them
From just letting urself do what u wanna do to just overthinking all ur actions
From not giving a damn about people's opinions to thinking about what people will say
From just wishing to grow up to dreaming of becoming a child again
Copyright © Mannat Dhanda | Year Posted 2026
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