Beauty Standards

Brooklyn Tippett 2002 (South Carolina)

May 22 


A tap of the screen taps at my heart.
My mind is slowly falling apart.

Take a break.  Take a step back.
You're strong. You're pretty. You're better than that!

But not so much as her.  Her stomach's so small.
The next girl looks at men and wins them all.

I can see her abs.  I can see my rolls.
How come I'm never meeting my goals?

I love eating junk.  It sucks me in.
I look in the mirror.  It feels like a sin.

My skin is so pale.  Her stomach's so small.
I'll never look like a Barbie doll.

I'm crashing.  Shaking.
Heart is aching.

What's it like to feel like ENOUGH?
Instead of this SUFF-

ocation.
I now hate going on vacation.

Because vacation means my body will show.
I don't want to go

Where people will see me
and don't even get me...

So I sit in the breaking.
I sit in the aching,

And tap at the screen that taps at my heart
Another day passes that I'm broken apart.

About this poem

External beauty is so easily at the forefront of our minds, and it's so easy to find aspects of our external beauty that we despise. Yet external beauty is not the entire picture of beauty. We often overlook the incredible internal aspects of our beauty that make us who we are.

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Written on May 06, 2022

Submitted by twinzmom15 on May 12, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AA XX BB CC DD BX EE FF DX GG HH EE AA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 888
Words 208
Stanzas 13
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2

Brooklyn Tippett

Brooklyn Tippett is currently a nursing student at the University of Tennessee and is the reigning America's Elegant Miss 2021. She enjoys writing poetry in her spare time. She won 2nd place in the 2014 Brentwood Women's Club Writing competion for her poem - My Cousin with Cancer. more…

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