Why Am I Not Good Enough- Poem
Again, another day where you get up feeling like crap
Makeup, not too much, you'll look like a whore
Too little, you'll look like a boar
You spend hours trying to get it right
You put on an outfit
Not too short, not too showy
Something uncomfortable

When you're you pretend not to hear the whispers
You pretend you don't feel their eyes
You hang with your "friends"
Who you don't like, so maybe you'll be liked
Because they're the popular kids
They are known by everyone, so if they're your "friends"
maybe people will like you

Lunch. You don't eat. You didn't eat breakfast
You're hungry but if you eat you'll get fat

Home. When you're here you go straight to your room
It's time to take off the makeup and those tight uncomfortable jeans
This might have taken hours, but
when you look at yourself one last time, you know you look bad
You say to yourself, "Why am I not good enough?"

When you dress down
you stop pretending
you let it out
you scream and cry
you can't pretend, not anymore
It's bubbling out,
"Why am I not good enough?"
You go to sleep knowing you have to do it all again

Knowing, thinking, feeling
"Why am I not good enough?"