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If Only...

If only your skin was a lighter shade

Here, this bleach might come to your aid

If only your lips weren't so full

Maybe the boys would like you at school

If only your hair wasn't so *****

Here's some caustic chemicals to make it more slinky

If only your ******* weren't so large

Here's the number to a surgeon, call and see what they charge

If only your waist was smaller (just a few inches)

Here's a corset, see how tiny it cinches?

If only your *** wasn't so round

How 'bout you run some laps to lose a few pounds?

If only you'd get your nose out of books

I bet you'd garner more stares for your looks

If only you'd change your curious personality

I hear the masses prefer banality

 

If only you'd see me for me

Do you know how content I'd be?

If you can't do that

Then leave me be.

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Written by
dawntreader
Published
Jan 8, 2017
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20·156
Notes

A collection of things people have said to me over the years. I have developed a cynical complex because of it.

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#hate#skin#appearance#selfesteem#judgement#looks#self-image#body-image#blackgirl
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