Perfect

PERFECT

I looked in the mirror today
Perfectly groomed
Perfectly dressed
Perfectly little smile
I looked at my resume today
Perfect straight A’s
Honor student
Student Council President
Perfect petite student
I looked at my family today
Not so perfect but loving parents
Perfect granny
Big Peach house
And money to spare
I looked at my disposition today
Perfectly perky with sugar-coated sweetness
That must make others sick
I looked at myself today
Never satisfied with all I have
Always wanting more
Insecure, searching, hopeless, broken-hearted, pretentious, superficial
Obsessed with how I appear to others
Not as perfect as one would think
My perfection is only as stable
As the blurry image in the mirror
Of a not-so-perfect girl
Who can’t even decipher the source of her own
Imperfect tears…