“It’ll be fun.” They said.

“Cover up and,

Don’t wear so much makeup,

Why do you look so bad?

God, you’re skin and bones!

But now you’re really fat.

Your hair is way too short

And now it could get caught

In the door!”

They implore.

SHUT UP! I really want to ignore

You.

“You’re always so quiet

But oh!

It’s a riot

When you speak!

Just be meek!

And don’t act so weak!

But if I’m strong

There’s something wrong

With anything I do

I’m so tired of it

I’m sick through and through!”

“Be a girl,” They said.

“It’ll be fun.” They said.

“You’re so flat,

Let’s change that!

Oh!

But now you attract

Too much attention

(Here’s a detention

Your shoulders are distracting

You’re subtracting

The eyes of the students

It’s really impacting their learning!)

Anything I do is a problem!

I really don’t mean to offend!

So… what do I do then?

“Be a girl,” They said.

“It’ll be fun.” They said.

You don’t know what it’s like to have

Friends

Who look wistfully in mirrors

Saying they’d do anything

Just to be thinner

You don’t know what it’s like to have

Issues

With self-image

Just because people tell you that

You’re just

“Average”.

You don’t know what it’s like to be

Told to

“Stay in the kitchen!”

Or your workplace having

Inferior female positions

So that we’re working under men

And not along them

Like receptionists or secretaries

It’s like we aren’t necessary!

You don’t know what it’s like!

“Be a girl,” They said.

“It’ll be fun.” They said.

But that’s the reality

And it drives me to insanity

That we’re pressured by society

How can you “Be a girl,”

Expected to fit a certain mould?

When that’s not what you want

At all?

So, here’s my plea

Listen up, society!

I want equality!

Don’t underestimate our capability!

Open your eyes and

Look at the reality!

I love poetry but it’s so hard finding topics. I also love music (Taylor Swift is amazing) and cooking. I don’t know what I want to do with my life so I’m experimenting with loads of different things like cooking and writing and the list goes on so yeah. Hi.