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The Tree

May 14, 2022
By FastSnail08 BRONZE, Erie, Pennsylvania
FastSnail08 BRONZE, Erie, Pennsylvania
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Favorite Quote:
The world wasn't made for us, we were made for the world.


Look at the perfect and happy tree!

Sitting there with the prettiest of flowers and leaves

But is the tree truly happy with itself?

It really hates the shape of it's trunk

How bumpy it's bark is

How curved and twisted it's branches are

How the flowers it grows are too big, too small, too ugly.

All the tree can do is hate and blame itself

No confidence, no love.

It wishes it was more simple, like other trees.

But all other beings say otherwise

"The tree has such unique bark and such nice curves to it's branches!"

Others are in love with the trees perfect little flowers.

People love everything the tree hates.

all the tree needs is a little self love.

No matter what that tree looks like, you never know what it's going through.


The author's comments:

In this piece, teens with body image issues are displayed as the tree. everyone sees them as perfect, but they think otherwise.


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