Caricature boys

And

Caricature girls

With caricature hearts

Pencil thin smiles, brushstroke eyes,

Erasable scars

Their charcoal laughs

And palette-knife words

Carve wounds so deep

But these

Caricature boys

And

Caricature girls

Never weep

Farah Masud is an undergraduate student at North South University  She is also a science, music and art enthusiast, always in awe of the universe and the human consciousness.