Un-Pretty Me

Two new pieces of poetry. I hope you enjoy them <3

Un-Pretty Me

She’s the girl with a lonely heart
Sitting in the back
The girl who’s always left behind
What other girls have she lacks

No songs are ever written about
The sadness that she cries
No stories made about the way
She always gets left behind

She’s not pretty like the other girls
She’s plain as plain can be
Standing out in an endless crowd
Of preconceived beauty

It’s hard to love what you already have
When the world is made this way
When being beautiful gets you ahead
And plain is a price to pay

You tell me that looks aren’t everything
And I agree with you
But tell that to the girl in the back
With her heart broke clean in two

Can’t help that this is who she is
Can’t help she’s not like them
She looks into the mirror each day
And hates what she can’t mend

For when we’re young and our mothers smile
And says, “how pretty she is”
We are taught right from the very start
That at pretty is where it begins

And when we’re fifteen and seventeen
Flipping through magazines
They say, “Get her hair, lose that weight
This is who you want to be”

Then when we’re finally twenty-one
It’s far too late to change
Consumed by an image-based society
But the media we do not blame

Instead we look in the mirror each day
And point at the average girl
The foundation, liner and mascara goes on
To hide our plain face from the world

But the plain girl doesn’t do that
Boys don’t ever look at her
It’s the price that she must pay
To stay true to all she’s worth

So she sits in the back of the classroom
And prays to God each day
Wishing for that moment when
She knows she’s beautiful – just this way.

-sweetsweetcandy

Eradication

I want to write you out of my heart
On blank paper that yearns for my words
I want to sing every lyric I know
In love songs that must be heard

I want to dance around the room
Until you’re out of my thoughts
All the while imagining that
I am eternally yours

I want to create beautiful things
In colours so very bright
Until my feelings for you disappear
Unreachable and out of sight

I want to dream every dream of you
Until they can be no more
All possibilities played in my mind
And into these words they pour

It’s because you inspire me in every way
And I can’t think when you’re around
Even when you’re not in the room
My heart, it can’t be found

For somehow it’s attached to you
And my head is left a mess
I can’t do anything but think of you
My creativity cannot rest

But then I realise I can write it down
I can sing it out loud and dance
I can create all of these beautiful things
And dream a dream of chance

Yet I will never eradicate you from myself
I’m bound to you this way
Creation is so wonderful
But it doesn’t replace what I don’t say

So you see I can never write you out
The questions torment my soul
And until the answers are clear to me
You will always have my hold

You can’t not ever inspire me
You can’t not have my heart
Everything about you
I want to be a part

You capture my imagination
And it’s not just ‘cause you do
I can’t rid you of myself
Because I just don’t want to.

-sweetsweetcandy