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.