Striving for perfection (poem)

Skinny, blond, and beautiful,
perfect teeth, height, weight, and skin
wearing the newest of clothes,
asecorized with the widest grin

Media Magazines stock the shelves,
Those fake girls in every tv commercial,
The envy they sought out to give takes over,
Making body image potentially controversial

Groups and cliques control young lives,
Each girl judging herself against the one beside her,
Determined to get the boy, or the most friends,
Changing appearence in desperate atemps from what they were

We say theres no such thing as perfect,
that doesnt mean we strive to be the closest thing to it,
We know it seems silly to some,
but ill be d*mned before i quit

True beauty is real,
but we all much rather have the fake,
Envy controls us,
Keeping us from seeing our mistake

So buy a shirt 2 sizes too small,
Skip lunch today,
And for the beauty that we want,
its just a small price to pay

We all think 'if only i looked like her'
and the day that u finally do, it wont be good enough,

The definiation of beautiful is getting thinner and thinner
and we're just fighting to fit.