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Amy Says.

I am ugly.

Amy says to herself in the mirror;

wishing her face was clearer.

Wanting her smile to be brighter.

Longing for the skin around her waist and thighs

to be just a little bit tighter.

She's nowhere near perfection;

nothing short of a defection.

Just one of the few flaws on Humanity's gorgeous face.

Or so she believed

before she could really see

the true so called "beauty"

those around her posessed.

Most of them are all faker than fake.

Coated with a plastic cake

hiding their distinctive features

to the point where your face

is just like hers

making all hope of individuality disappear.

Pretty much goes against everything we're fighting for, huh?

All of you claiming to be so different; what happened to that, huh?

Oh and let's not forget "skinny".

'Cause, baby, skinny itself just isn't skinny enough is it?

Craving attention as if it were vital

like the air we breathe.

Lying about your home life;

Wearing your pain on your sleeve.

Like savages, we crawl;

desperately begging for reassurance from everyone else

but ourselves.

They've taken your personalities

and made them indifferent.

Making it so that you are so much easier to form

into what others see

as beautiful.

Well take it from me then, Sweetie,

this oppressive standard of beauty is sickening.

Sickening like the *****

traveling up your throat and out onto the toothbrush

you are using to conform yourself to this standard.

Sickening like the pounds of cover up that are quite obviously

clogging those pores.

But oh, the lies you've told have already filled

enough of the gaps in your heart.

Face it girl, you don't even know who you are.

You've been engrossed by the standard

you all swear you're not a part of.

It is disgusting;

ugly, almost beyond repair.

Now Amy, she is beautiful.

That's right, take a good, long stare.

She won't change herself to be like you.

Can't you see you're miserable?

Pathetic, it's true.

I am beautiful.

Amy says to herself in the mirror.

Wishing, wanting, longing

for all of you to hear her.

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