Hope White Poems

I live in a world
Where beauty is defined by words like
TALL, SKINNY, THIN, FLAWLESS…
Where beauty is not being NORMAL
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not good enough not pretty enough not smart enough
dear mother and father.
I apologize
for disappointing you.
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Her paintbrush is a razor,
'I deserve the pain.'
She shrugs and insists.
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I'm sitting on the floor
I'm crying so much more
trying to erase this pain
trying to forget the truth
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Having depression and anxiety is like being thrown into a raging, surging ocean,
When you don't know how to swim.
Meanwhile, the whole world expects you to keep swimming forward,
To keep excelling and moving onward in this thing called life.
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