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Colors -Shrinkhala Khatiwada MN Talent round, 2018 I was 9 years old, When I sold my nudity To a man 10 years older, for some yellow candies. As he stripped my pink princess dress off I was no longer My red cheeks or my big brown eyes For him, I was my pink vagina, I was my ungrown breasts I was my pale nipples. An innocent 9 year old was now, Just. Another. Naked. Female. Body. I stood there in spotlight As he touched his private parts Making faces that I could not recognize And yet.. I smiled. I smiled and I said yes, I said yes and I smiled I said YES.. cause.. That’s what you are supposed to do, right? Say yes and smile to any man, who Sugarcoats words and offers them to you like candies Who calls you the prettiest little girl in the world. Seven years later, riding my bike through the mustards fields, The yellow suddenly blinds me. As the image of him, his face, his grin as he opened his palms Offering me my favorite yellow candies Hits me! The