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Jul 4
I wear cotton, not crowns.
My scent isn’t silk and sugar.
I breathe a simpler kind of air.
I don’t rest where royals do.
I don’t cheer in their holy halls.
My hands wear no jewels,
but they carry
the weight of generations.
And still, I rise —
quiet, fully.
That’s how legacies
are born.
Zahra
Written by
Zahra  25/F/Pakistan
(25/F/Pakistan)   
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