The Need to Be Perfect

by SoRrOwFuL Claire   Dec 15, 2005


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I look in the mirror every single day
And seem to think critically
About my face, my legs, my flab
I always have to analyse me

I feel as though I not good enough
And I feel I don't look right
And everyday I go on with this
struggle with this eternal fight

I hate my legs: there not thin enough
I can't swim with them showing
I can't wear the skirts or the pants so short
They'll think they are disgusting

I hate my stomach: so much fat
Jiggling and flabby pale mess
They'll think I'm repulsive
I wouldn't be able to impress

I hate my skin: just so pale
And it turns to a very bright pink
They'll just comment, poke and jeer
Til I get pushed to the brink

I hate the way that we have standards
And have to be what they expect
The women today feel so "ugly"
And have no self-respect

If the media, like TV and magazines too
Would stop to think about this
And think of what they are doing to us
Making women feel like this

I wrote this to show how much we are pressured to look perfect and be like clones. We are special in our own right and I hate the way it pushes people to think they are "ugly" because we are not. god made us to be unique and so we should.

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  • 18 years ago

    by Angie

    This poem is awesome! I know how you feel. Whenever i look into the mirror...thats exactly what i think. This poems really hit home for me. But your right god did make us all unique! We don't have to try to be those models on tv ot anythin. We're us...we're beautiful! Your a very good writer! Nice style and good job with the rhyming! Keep up the amazing work! 5/5
    ~Luvz~
    ~Chica~

  • 18 years ago

    by Tiffani

    I so agree with you. and once again amazing amazing piece. this sounds like something i would write, i really understand where your coming from.

    Stay strong,
    Much Love,
    Tiffani

  • 18 years ago

    by PassionatelyMarla

    I agree with u 100%,, i see that ur from australia!!! i love ozzies, my aunt lives there and i have a penpal in sydney,,, i bought a cd of savage garden resently,, and one of the songs quoted,,"i believe beauty magazines promote low self asteem" and that is soooo true,, i had a low self image, and i relised that it was coz of all the magazines i was reading,, more power to ya,,, love ur work, try rhiming more tho, pls read some of mine and tell me what u think,, thx*
    **doz an1c me?**

  • 18 years ago

    by DevilWithin

    I feel the same way looken in the mirrow, very nice.. xoxox Rachel

  • 19 years ago

    by Amy

    Hey once again this is awsum darl keep it up. a little hard to read coz of the funny ?!?!@?! things but still sends out a gr8 message. i luv it
    amy

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