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Hayley Feb 2018
Vision is the art of seeing the invisible
Seeing beyond the pounds of makeup
I smear the goops and snake oils
Onto my face hiding my true self
So I can morph and mold myself
Into whatever ******* society wants me
To be I have an ich I can't
Satisfy because that would
Ruin the hour of miticulous painting
And perfecting I had just
Done to my horrifically
Ugly face
Vision is the art of seeing the invisible
Like when I lock myself in a bathroom
And repent for the caloric sin I
Committed that day
Until both my heart and stomach are empty
Vision is the art of seeing the invisible
Like my invisible tears that I hide in
My heart at the fear of seeming
Insane weak or afraid
Vision is the art of seeing the invisible
Like seeing past the phrase “I'm fine’’
That I seem to repeat over and over
Until it becomes my signature greeting
Vision is the art of seeing the invisible
Like when I glue on a smile for those that
Love me
Hayley Feb 2018
Weight

Weight
Weight can be heavy
Or barely feel like lifting anything
Weight
Weight is the reason
Anorexic models are
Goddesses in the public
Eye as they strut with
Snapable ankles
Down the runway
Of life
I want to be these
Women
I want their protruding ribs
They're thigh gaps their
Everything
But as I sit
Gawking at the
Fat on my stomach
Face
Chest
And pretty much everywhere
I begin to wonder
Is it worth it
To be toothpick thin
To starve your body of
It's basic primal needs
To wake up only to skip
Breakfast
To ***** out
The sinful calories
To one day never
Wake up and leave
Your family alone
To wake up only
To obsess over
The number on the scale
I shake my head smiling at my reflection
Pulling my shirt down
And limping out of the bathroom
I would eat
Whenever I needed
Whenever I wanted
I have shattered the heavy
Iron chains
Of the goddesses that
Forced me to believe
That my weight
Determined my worth
Hayley Feb 2018
I am the
Tallest pine tree
In a large
Beautiful
Forest
The tallest tree
A giant among
Men I guard
The smaller trees
In my protective
Shade from the
Suns harsh heat
I stand proudly
Watching the sun
Streaked with blue
Orange
Pink and yellow
As the sun
Began to rest
its tired eyes
and the moon rose
to its feet
ready to guard
the dreams of
the people under
it's pale light.
I stand among
The blinking twinkling
Stars that littered
The indigo night
Sky suddenly the
Grass is set
Ablaze in a
Fiery flaming fury
The flames climb
Up my bark
Smoke rolls into
The air
Vengeful hateful clouds
Of black and gray
My brethren are only scared
Bits and pieces of their
Bark like flesh turned
To cinder
But I am obliterated
Struck to the ground
Began for mercy
I am no longer the tallest tree
Hayley Feb 2018
Bullies
They are everywhere
Sometimes .in the
Open sometimes in
The shadows spreading
Their hate and evil
Like a plague however
The worst kind of
Bullying is the bullying
That you do to yourself
You stare at your hideous
Features as the popular
Kids throw judging tomatoes
And heads of lettuce at
You're insecure little head
And heaven knows you can't
Fight back because these popular
Kids are the royalty of the school
And whatever they say goes
So you bow your head in respect
And bury yourself in your school, work
Possibly the only thing to bring you joy
The teacher's radiant smiles and praise allowing
A golden sun like beam of joy to fill your mind filling it with a golden meadow of daisies
But it is not popular to be smart
They shall call you oh so many toxic things
Egghead
**** up
Brainiac
Human calculator
And whatever
Oh so wondrous venomous things
That will poison
And ruin the once
Golden field of happiness
However, you stay silent
And continue to
Conform to whatever
They want you to be
To the point
Where when you
Take off the
Copious amounts of
Makeup you can
Hardly stand to
Look at your
Face and all
It's flaws and
Cry in hatred
And sadness
Loathing your looks
More and more with each
Mask of makeup you wipe
Away
Hayley Feb 2018
Sixteen
Sixteen is the
Age of excitement
Rebirth
And new
Experiences
Sixteen is the age where
You are no longer
Mothers little
Girl with her radiant
Blonde hair tied
Into two pigtails
Her innocence of youth
Still intact
The light in her eyes
Still shining
Bright as day
Driving
Driving is a milestone
That everyone looks forward
Too with baited breath
But what happens when
One girl's legs simply ****
At being legs?
What happens when
Society drags her under
The deep dark ocean
Of loathing her natural beauty?
What happens when society
Tells her what she can or can not be
What happens when she gets picked on
What happens when the monster in the closet
Becomes her own self-image what
Happens when she learns that people
Are cold cruel crass or malicious
To her just for being her
Will her innocence of youth
Be broken  like a fragile glass
Will the light vanish from her eyes
Leaving only rain clouds of tears
Will the ghost of a smile no one has seen
In months linger on her face
Will she let go of the cliff that is
Called hope that she has been clinging
To all her life falling to the rocky jagged
Called life the blood that was her
Hope
innocence
Youth
Optimism
Spilling out of her
Wounds
What happens when she turns sixteen?
Hayley Feb 2018
You don't love
Someone because they
Are perfect you
Love them in
Spite of the fact
They're not despite
What the media
Of today seems
To think perfection
Is unattractive I
Want the imperfect
Things like a
Crooked tooth
An uneven grin
Makes you that
Much more desirable
At least to
Me but no
You live your
Life pretending you are
Ugly the ****
Of the earth
So you skip meals
And bury your
Face to make up
Just to appease
To whatever society
Deems as beautiful
But let me just say
Society is garbage
Don't trust the people
With photoshop and
A marketing team behind them
Do not give into their sugary
Sweet whispers of perfection
For you have no need for them
Because you are perfectly imperfect
And maybe just maybe one-day society
Will wake up and realize that being imperfect
Is perfectly acceptable
I do not want perfection I just want you
A tribute to my bestie

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