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When You Are a Girl
When you are a girl
The world wants so much from you.
The world tugs and pulls,
Making it hard.
Do I look too fat in this dress? -
Slow mow
My head is overflowing,
All of everything I have ever said,
Spilling through my seems,
The stitches snapping,
But in slow mo.
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she was alone until he brought the sunshine
She was alone in her fear,
so so very alone.
She walked the bright hallways as if they were dark,
head bowed to the ground,
shoulders curving in a self-protecting habit,
she grew her hair long and kept it hanging, -
Poison berries
Red berries are poison berries,
that is what her mother taught her.
Men who grab you,
and don't let go,
even when you say no,
are just like those berries,
that's what her mother taught her.
"Why?" the girl asked. -
all around
She was alone,
In crowd,
But alone.
Her face held a smile,
Pasted there for everyone to see.
Her hands were held primly at her sides,
Legs crossed.
She was surrounded, -
