How can you be set up for success,

The first child of a loving marriage,

And still, fail?

How can you still grow up to be disappointing

To all around you,

No friends to talk to,

The family doesn't care,

And your boyfriend acts like you’re 

Fragile.

Glass. 

How can parents not know

Their daughter is drawing

Scars 

All

Over

Her 

Legs.

scars that never heal

How can they not realize she is acting

Different

Distant

Broken?

The father makes her feel

Lazy and useless

The mother instilled

Insecurities.

She now hates her 

Eyebrows, and

Hair, and

Hands, and

Weight.

She starves herself to 

Lose 

The weight

She can’t hold her boyfriend's hand,

Her mother

Called them ugly

Over and

Over

Again. 

Now she just cuts to 

Feel something

She is numb

n

u

m

b

Books allow her to escape

But the father tells her she is

Lazy

Worthless

Because she spends 

Three

Hours 

Reading

How can this girl be

So sad

So broken

So starved and bruised and scarred?

How can this girl be me?