Appearance&Reality

She sits there crying

longing to be accepted.

They have placed thoughts

in her mind that are artificial.

Ideas that dressing her up,

ideas that starve her, all because

 they think they know best.

Some do not see the hurt they are causing.

“It’s what everyone does” that is repeated.

Will she ever know the truth?

The fact that all she needs to be is herself

not what others tell her is appealing.

 She will always struggle to conform

No one will ever be happy with just her.

I wrote this poem a while back when we were working in our poetry group projects. The group I was in focused on appearance and reality.

            Looking back into my childhood I began to recall the way I felt when I did not fit into the norms way of doing things. I would go as far to say that still today as adults many people struggle to conform to societies standards.

In this poem I feel like yes, I am only covering the physical apperience of individuals but looks are everything now in today’s world. As each person grows and matures they are given ideas that persuade them to make life decisions. Ideas for teenage girls include the “perfect weight”. The definition of “perfect weight”, judged by fellow peers, begins to invade many girls’ decisions and results in actions being taken, such as anorexia and bulimia.

Human beings sometimes do not notice the impact words leave on the people they are speaking into. In the end the only way to be happy is to be totally you. Humans will always strive to be better than they think they are and will continue to conform to society. Because of that fact we will not ever been satisfied. We must find comfort in ourselves and in Christ who has made us beautiful in his eyes.