Beauty Standards
A tap of the screen taps at my heart.
My mind is slowly falling apart.
Take a break. Take a step back.
You're strong. You're pretty. You're better than that!
But not so much as her. Her stomach's so small.
The next girl looks at men and wins them all.
I can see her abs. I can see my rolls.
How come I'm never meeting my goals?
I love eating junk. It sucks me in.
I look in the mirror. It feels like a sin.
My skin is so pale. Her stomach's so small.
I'll never look like a Barbie doll.
I'm crashing. Shaking.
Heart is aching.
What's it like to feel like ENOUGH?
Instead of this SUFF-
ocation.
I now hate going on vacation.
Because vacation means my body will show.
I don't want to go
Where people will see me
and don't even get me...
So I sit in the breaking.
I sit in the aching,
And tap at the screen that taps at my heart
Another day passes that I'm broken apart.
About this poem
External beauty is so easily at the forefront of our minds, and it's so easy to find aspects of our external beauty that we despise. Yet external beauty is not the entire picture of beauty. We often overlook the incredible internal aspects of our beauty that make us who we are.
Written on May 06, 2022
Submitted by twinzmom15 on May 12, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AA XX BB CC DD BX EE FF DX GG HH EE AA |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 888 |
Words | 208 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
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