Society

Society

The ones who tell us that we're not good enough

Need to be tougher

Try harder

Be smarter

Society

The ones who show us cropped

and photoshopped ads

And tell us

Hey

Why can't you be like that?

Society

The ones who tell us to be skinny

But not anorexic

Funny

But not a comedian

Smart

But not a nerd

A leader

But not bossy

Society

The ones who say look at this

Be like her

They say to model ourselves after "the one"

But who is"the one?"

Can't you be "the one?"

Society

The ones who force girls to starve herself another day

The ones who force boys to take another pill and pray

The ones who force a girl to start dieting at the age of 8

The ones who force a boy to just suck it up take the bait

Society

The silent killer

After it's own people

We shrug it off

Even though the problem has become too big to ignore

Society

The ones who don't give us guidelines

Or lifelines

Rather they throw us into their game

Without telling us the instructions

Society

The ones who whisper every moment of the day

Ugly

Fat

Dumb

Poor

Jabbing at us these words

That we were unfamiliar with before

We are sitting here

Waiting for the change to happen

But the 5 people that have committed suicide because of society's undying glare

since the time I started speaking

Until now

Couldn't wait any longer

They broke

Erupted

Collapsed

All we ever wanted was to be

Accepted

Loved

Embraced for our differences

In our own homes

A right that should have never been denied

But it's been declined for too long

But now

Society

It's time to take charge

Because who makes up society?

We do

Set new rules

Change up the old

And tell our people

that you are beautiful in every way

And don't let society tell you any different

Because what society fails to realize is that we're all

Equal

Not identical