Truth | Poems & Short Stories

All Your Imperfects

My parents wanted a princess

Pretty shoes, wear a nice dress

Now I'm what they call not very blessed

Went from a beautiful smile to a broken mess

Perfect grades, straight A's

An image of perfection that they made

Give them a happy face

Show them what I'm not

Try not to be a disgrace

Make no mistakes

Then I won't be in vain

Growing up

People change

Suddenly I'm never enough

Miss the old me

Now I'm nothing

Struck by the hard times

Got thrown around by life

From a blooming garden to a full blown hurricane

Suddenly I'm to skinny

Or I'm too fat

I should wear more color

I look depressed just because I wear black

Wear a mask

Cover your face

So then they can't see under

So they don't know about my dark place

Hiding in a corner

It feels so safe

Going unnoticed

Nobody's focus

Until I'm found

Then I'm dragged from my hiding place

I'll never be the perfect daughter

I'll always be the one to anger my mother

Always be the one to irritate my father

Always be the one to annoy my own brother

Always be the one to be a mistake to my grandmother

Always be the different one to my grandfather

So why do I even bother

Just a lonely lamb in a field

Being hunted for slaughter

Stabbed in the back

The one that they want

Everything that I lack

An unloved, worthless, useless human

I never know what I'm ever doing

Lost control

A puppet on your strings

Long gone with a soft blow

I'm not who they think

I'm not who I used to be

Look me in the eyes, and I just freeze

Get good grades or I will never have a future