Picture Perfect

You must be identical

‘Picture perfect’

Like cookies cut out from the same cookie cutter

Stamped to all be the same

 Perfection is key

Any flaw, or difference

No matter the size

No matter how small

You are thrown away

Pointing fingers mock your body

Like a clown at the circus

If you don’t fit in the cookie cutter, you’re ugly

Suck in your stomach until you suffocate

Starve yourself for months on end

Until you get the perfect waist

Smile, don’t stop

Stick needles into your face

Just be the perfect doll and you’ll be safe

‘Words don’t hurt’-then explain the impact

They stab like glass shards, ignorant of your cries

Scars and cuts left across your body

As the burning blood trickles down slowly

All they say is ‘Suck it up’

Pain is beauty and beauty is pain

Was it worth it? The pain? The sacrifice?

Beauty standards are forever changing

And entirely overrated