I Am that Woman

I don't like the way I look.

I don't find myself worth much at all.

I don't understand what you see in me.

Life just becomes this bitter round.

I find myself in this pit of despair

Of self-hate, of all those times I failed.

The reasons I can't look like pop culture.

How my body is wrongly-shaped.

All of the faults that scream at me

When all I want to do is look in the mirror

The makeup has to be done, yet sadness clouds me.

Dying on the inside because I cannot appreciate

And if I cannot then who will?

Yet today I see a different girl.

I am covered in hurt and loathing.

But I am just a fallen girl

Failed daughter of Eve.

I still bear the image given to me.

I must learn to accept what I have

I must learn to love.