Still the girl with curly brown hair
Once a girl with curly brown hair
showed her mom her very first poem
she tapped her head and told her it was great
and hung it on the fridge for all to see
That same girl 10 years later
17 and in her senior year
comes home every day and hides her work
because her teacher told her it was only average
her teacher gives her 20 pages of homework almost every night
never giving her the chance to take a minute to write
she does math, science, history and english
and in her head condemns them all to hell
she can't do all this every night
and they wonder why stress is a problem at her young age
the girl with the curly brown hair can't do what she loves
because shes too busy filling her head with useless facts
and never having time to do anything she likes
sometimes she bangs her head and questions the meaning
of her life
and she locks her door and writes a poem
about how she cant wait to leave and focus on her
but for now she ignores the gun in her nightstand drawer
and hangs the poem on her door
never showing her mom
because to her she is still the girl with the curly brown hair