She was stunning, gorgeous Everywhere she went she turned heads The boys whistled, the girls muttered their jealousy They poked and prodded her until she was reduced to nothing more than a hopeless nobody She stopped trying, she stopped looking for the compliments and the easy smiles that seemed to spring up when she came around She didn't know what had turned the opinions of so many, Maybe it was a nasty rumor made by a popular girl It could have been anything really But all that tearing down allowed her to build back up She realized that she didn't need the makeup and the dresses and the fancy shoes to be beautiful What really mattered was her heart, her soul And so she found beauty inside Her new found shining grace shone from deep beneath her skin And although there was still muttering when she walked in the room, She had learned to push it all aside And see the true beauty of the world around her