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.

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