she was made up of stolen words
words meant for other girls
other more beautiful girls, more popular girls
girls that had guys write for them
about them
she would read those words
all of them
and she would dream
and she would fantasize
she would memorize
the way they rhymed or didn’t
or the way they sounded
eventually she would become these words
she would be lovely as a summers day
more beautiful than a butterflies wings
she would flow
she would rhyme
or not
one day she would be noticed
and loved
and others would read her like a book
a book they couldn’t put down
one day she would be a…
poem
she would be poetry
words that everyone read

but she would know better still