The Terrifying Truth About Skin Bleaching Products| Refinery29

Stop this before it’s too late,

Trust me this is no clickbait.

For acceptance, skin bleaching,

This is what our society has been teaching?

Despite knowing the harmful effects we use it,

Today I ask, why can’t we refuse it?

Is such toxicity needed?

It’s equal to the state post self harm, skin that bleeded.

Protect yourself from such harm,

Right now it’s ringing, it’s an alarm.

Nazia Begum.

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Suicide: ‘I write this to tell you, I am done’

Suicide is wishing I was dead,

Suicide is profound in my head.

It feels like I am trapped,

On my back, all my sorrows wrapped.

Suicidal Ideation all around,

I am falling in a well, deep down.

There is no way out, surrounded by doubts,

It is like a drought.

Complete blackout.

Enveloped in darkness, there is no light,

Me versus my thoughts, that’s the fight.

Grief surrounds, within me, I drown.

Chaos in my head, in no time i will be dead.

Nothing to say, nothing to hear,

All i feel, is intense fear.

As time passes by, tears roll down my cheek,

The hope of my survival is bleak.

In the end,

This letter i send.

‘Sorry Mum,

This is your son,

I write this to tell you,

I’m done.’