The girl who everyone loves The girl who everyone loves, dances, sings, twirls and
It doesn’t matter when her classmates mock her
smiles.
or tell her she looks like she’s gained a bit of weight.
And she never complains.
She just chuckles and gives them all her winner smile.
She gives them all her best attitude, her best jokes, and
She doesn’t feel like a winner though, does she?
her best advice.
No matter how many medals she brings home.
The girl who everyone loves listens to all her friend's cries and tears,
How many people compliment her at school. Or how many teachers tell her how great she is.
she rubs their backs and tells them that they deserve the world.
But she keeps her winner smile. She keeps it clean and white and perfect. The way she knows people like it.
When she wakes up, she answers her ever-ringing phone to When she comes home, her family asks her to make dinner
giggle and stay quiet as she intently listens to everything So she does.
the caller has to say. Then they ask her to clean the dishes,
She doesn’t mind when the phone hangs up, So she does.
And she still has to get up and live her day. She doesn’t mind that the person on the other end never asked how she was, or what she was doing today. She doesn’t mind. She doesn’t mind.
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She wipes the house sparkly clean and ignores her aching wrist or her throat that yearns to scream out for help. She just continues cleaning, silently.
