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Insecure Girls Don't Do Big Things
People like me,
who have a stash of
knives inside them
that are used involuntarily each
time my feelings are crumbled
and suffocated and stomped on,
don't do big things.
My swim coach put me in the
200 free, and saw something in me,
that enabled him to believe I could
swim 8 laps at a meet and succeed.
But I saw nothing but a shaky
shackled together mess of a
swimmer
And the knives that plunged at my insides,
made me plummet as I failed
the 200 freestyle.
A girl who doesn't feel happy about
herself is a mess of a person.
Insecure girls don’t become
successful writers or teachers or
business people.
They forge in fears of a future of
failure,
And always believe that
the knives inside control them ,
until they recite the fact like a horrifying poem:
insecure girls don’t do big things.
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