The Girl Unaccepting of Compliments

Girl with hair so frizzy,

Learn to tame the humidity in your heart,

That smokes out with billowing, fragrant,

Clouds so soft, but so impossible to caress.

Girl with a few teeth imperfect,

Continue your smiles,

Even when they don’t smile back.

Girl with a rounded frame,

Learn that size is just the distance,

Between one side of yourself to the other.

Your West and East coast attractiveness,

With Midwestern friendliness in the middle,

Something they all like about you but,

Where that stomach you hate is.

Why are you like this?

Girl who promised herself,

That she’d never look pretty,

By nature and makeup skills,

Just got a compliment on her makeup.

Isn’t the universe funny that way?

Why are you so funny that way?

Girl who cries to herself at night,

After laughing herself breathless all day,

Wonders how it’d actually be breathless.

Says she can’t stand herself,

Berates herself with insults,

Like a soldier in combat with his reflection.

Girl, learn to take their compliments,

With a smile on your face.

Understand that you matter,

As we all do in the end.