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Beauty Standards

April 2, 2024
By pamorchad11130 BRONZE, Easton, Pennsylvania
pamorchad11130 BRONZE, Easton, Pennsylvania
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my boundless insecurities can no longer be contained, 

for when i scroll through instagram, i am forever pained, 

as girls flaunt their seemingly perfect bodies,  

while mine is speckled, my face, dotty, 

this level of sheer perfection, i’ll never obtain.


The author's comments:

as a middle-school girl, i possessed an incredulous amount of acne, for which i received an excessive amount of bullying and unceasing taunting. in an effort to provide those undergoing the seemingly most perilous time in their lives with a resource to consult upon potentially experiencing bullying or taunts to supply them with relief in the format of "you're not alone," i constructed the following limerick...


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