Living in hope of pleasing others, for the prize of being appreciated and cared for.

Neglecting feelings and dreams that are within her, she has become an unrecognizable person.

Limiting her consumption, for the goal of society’s unrealistic standards.

Forgetting to make others opinions secondary and instead place her own there.

SHE is who they want her to be. Skinny, pretty, and smart. But still perfect seems so very far away.

She’s already run a marathon to get where they think she belongs but SHE hasn’t gotten a sense of accomplishment or comfortableness.

She runs and she runs carrying the weight of society’s limitations and opinions on her fragile back.

Will she break? Will she fall? It’s her time to decide if she’ll dismiss those possibilities and RISE.

She is who SHE pleases to be.