By Noor Ahmed
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Through loveless,
lustful
eyes I am watched.
To be beautiful is to
be watched.
By the men
who place a woman's
body
over her importance.
By the men who consume
with their eyes
the ones who undress
for a moment of
primal, bliss.
By the ones who grab
their crotch at the
sight of cleavage.
By the men who use
force,
to make me theirs,
to taste their sin.
About the Author
Noor Ahmed is a reader and writer in her first semester at ICC. She hopes to transfer to UIUC and double major in English and creative writing. She spends most of her free time frustrated with her penmanship. She loves her cat, Sunny, who always jumps off her lap while she writes her in-progress books.