pErFect

Comb your hair

Brush your teeth

Cut your wrist

Flash a smile

Go to school

Kiss your boyfriend

Wipe your tears

Start again

 

You’ve always been the popular girl

Who’s begging for attention

You don’t have feelings

Because you’re smart

Beautiful

Successful

 

But what they don’t know is that you’re crumbling inside

Your parents are about to divorce

And you’re pregnant

 

You’re far from perfect and they don’t know the beginning of it.

 

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