More Than Surviving

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She is perfect.

Prosperous grades,

Belle hair,

Admirable girl.

 

She's stuck up.

Favorable grades,

Pretty hair,

Commendable girl.

 

Her home is broken but she has

improving grades,

Ambitions,

A job,

A future.

 

She keeps herself together 

for her

not for the people talking about her

or the family members making her life hell.

 

She spies the necessity of 

Earning 

Constructive a life for herself 

Outside of the struggles she's faced.

 

Outside of the yelling

the cops

the hospitals

the loss,

 

She's trying

and that makes her worth it.

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