Didn’t Like My Body

©Lydia Lord

Didn’t like my body
Didn’t like my nose
Didn’t like my tummy
Didn’t like my clothes
I was too short
And I was too tall
And I wasn’t happy with myself at all

I was always shorter
And so I always fought
I was always busty
And hated it a lot
I was too skinny
I was too wide
No matter how I looked
I wasn’t satisfied

The big guy doesn’t always get the girl
I had two dates in high school
Five foot six at eleven years old
The tallest girl in my school

Didn’t like my ears
And couldn’t stand my hair
And my ugly glasses
Drove me to despair
I was always stocky
Saw myself as fat
But somehow we managed
To survive all that

Men:
I always thought how great my life would be
If I was
Smaller
Bigger

Women:
I knew those boys would think more of me with a
Slimmer
Flatter
Shorter
Taller
Figure

Couldn’t be a beauty
But I could make’ em grin
Couldn’t be a big guy
Much to my chagrin
Couldn’t be a lot I wanted to be
Glad I discovered I could just… be… me