Once, there was a little girl with green eyes,
and everyday she wore her dark brown hair in little pigtails.
When the girl was seven she watched her older sister,
standing there in front of her mirror,
judging herself,her weight, her everything.
That morning neither of them ate anything.
When the girl was only eight,
she watched her older brother laugh at a girl,
for wearing glasses and reading on the bus.
That afternoon the girl went home and hid all her books in the basement.
At the age of twelve, the girl was at school,
watching and listening to all the other older girls,
with long, straight hair and short skirts,
puttin on make-up in the school bathroom,
and listened to them say that boys will only like you
if you were perfect,
the next day the girl showed up at school with pink lip stick,
short skirts, and she had taken down her pigtails and exchanged them,
for straight hair.
At the age of fourteen,
the girl watched her father hit her mother for the first time,
when her mother noticed her stading in the doorway, watching everything that had just happend,
she told her that daddy didn't mean it,
next year she told herself the same thing her mother told her,
"He didn't mean it" when her boyfriend hit her.
When the girl was sixteen,
she was as thin as paper and empty,
with straight brown hair, and red lips
white skin, and life-less green eyes,
while she was staring at herself in the bathroom mirror,
she told herself, "Well atleast I'm normal."
-o.t.
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