False Beauty

She's beautiful been beautiful her whole life
but she's been taught so many lies
told psychologically that she wasn't good enough because she doesn't look like them
she's not built up like them and she doesn't have the light skin
the wavy or straight hair that they desire to lift her higher
because she was born dark skinned
men
tell her if she was just half a shade lighter she'd be fire
liars
because she doesn't fit the magazine's definition of what's in
she begins to blame her skin
her nose her hair her eyes
as reasons to why
the men in her life
never stayed with her long
but that's wrong
she blamed herself for years of pain for years of trying to be
what she already was
I hunger for the blood
the blood of these people who told her she wasn't pretty that she wasn't lovely
because they lied
they told her that because she didn't line up with a magazine's description
she can't fit some man's prescription
because she doesn't fit this cookie cutter mold
well she can't because honestly she's so much more
more than what they took the time to show her she was
her family had no time to show her love
mama and daddy both worked themselves to death
to provide everything on the shelf
but had problems developing her sense of self
so when she grows up she has a deficit
her image of self is derelict
empty and void
because her parents never showed her what she was over society's noise
that she was much more valuable than money and cars
now she's chasing all that plus some rich star
who can make her feel worth pursuits and pleasure
but nobody ever told her she was beautiful beyond measure