how i feel

kate oliver 2006 (melbourne)



I’m too skinny,

But them I'm too fat,

I'm too loud,

But then I'm to quiet,

You’re too pretty, you’re going to steal my boyfriend,

But you're to ugly, you’ll never get a boyfriend.

You show to much skin,

But then you don’t show enough.

Show respect to every man you meet,

But all of a sudden I'm a whore.

It is impossible to be a woman,

It's either this or that, do this  

But don’t do that.

Then you expect me to be kind all of the time,

Don't ask why I'm always so ‘ bitchy ‘ when this is how I live.

don’t tell me I'm ungrateful for my privileges when this is what happens everyday.

 

It is unfair, so unfair.

 

 

 

About this poem

i wrote it because i was angry, at myself and at everything in the world, i thought it was unfair the burden that was put on me from a young age

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Written on July 29, 2023

Submitted by kateeaoliver on July 29, 2023

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Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 671
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Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1

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