Hypocrites
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We all blame the magazines
Or the models
Or the men who tell us we need to
Look our best.
We check-in on the daily woes
Of who
And what
And where.
We tell one another that it’s okay
And we are not to blame
For what society is telling us.
That we are beautiful for being who we are.
Then we laugh
And scoff
At the girl who may not be just like us.
It’s human nature
Is what we keep telling ourselves.
But let’s blame society.
We secretly carry a knife in our back-pocket
For safe keeping
In case it comes in handy
To use on that boy who broke our heart
With his words.
So we can hurt him the way he hurt us.
But let’s blame society.
We realize that monsters do exist
But we are too scared to admit
That they lie within us
Or really
That they are us
Because we are the monsters.
Because we are society.
And we aren’t doing much
To stop the pain
And the hurt
From ever occurring again.