how does it feel being pretty?

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“I hope being pretty
is a choice.
Because if it is,
I’d slam the switch
on.

So that for once,
just for once,
I’d be able to feel
that I am seen.
just for once,
I want to feel loved
even if it’s just my face
that they want.
Just for once,
I want for someone
to look at me
and praise my
entirety.

Call me desperate,
for I am truly—
I won’t deny it.
I just want for the
world to look at
me for once,
with love in its eyes,
with softness in its
hands, and with all
the greatest things
it can offer.

I want to be beautiful,
to feel beautiful,
and to be seen as
someone worth of
appreciation. You can’t
blame me, for I never
felt it in my entire
life. I am thirsty
for the attention
that I never got
for having
this skin.”

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