The Impact of a Cruel World
They tell
Me my head
Is too big for
My body, I tell
Them they
need
To be skinnier, their
Parents tell them they need to
Gain weight, they aren’t supposed to
weigh so little at such an age,
Others tell them to stop eating so much,
“You’re too fat.”
“You’re too skinny”
“Why do your thighs have a gap?”
“Your stomach is bigger than my dads”
“Are you pregnant?” “You’re anorexic.”
“Your waist is smaller than my thigh.”
They believe the lies and stop eating,
from three meals a day,
to three diet pills a day
They become Americas
pretty stereotype
Until they
are
no
M
O
R
E
About this poem
This poem, recites how a young person in today's modern society feels. How others words can have such a big impact on one person.
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Written on May 11, 2021
Submitted by dvanmeter. on February 11, 2022
Modified on March 13, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABCADEFGGHIJKLMNOPDDQRDSTUTSK |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,519 |
Words | 125 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 29 |
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