For all a girl should want
She reached in
And took something so beautiful.
She drilled a hole in it
And locked it to a chain around her neck.
She called it hers.
She stole it from its home
In glass hopes and thin illusions,
Where she held it in front of her face
And demanded that it be hers.
With neglected childhood wishes and ignored aspirations
She squeezed it in between her pale fingers
And said
isn’t it perfect.
But she stands with 6 inch hate under her heels,
She feels like she did
When her mother told her to be thin.
To be small
Small as you can be.
So small that you will never have to speak.
Oh darling just smile.
You’ll be as happy as you ever need to be.
You will bleed rubies
While your dreams fall from the clouds
into a sea of diamonds.