How can you be set up for success, The first child of a loving marriage, And still, fail?

How can you still grow up to be disappointing To all around you, No friends to talk to, The family doesn't care, And your boyfriend acts like you’re  Fragile. Glass. 

How can parents not know Their daughter is drawing Scars  All Over Her  Legs.

scars that never heal

How can they not realize she is acting Different Distant Broken?

The father makes her feel Lazy and useless

The mother instilled Insecurities. She now hates her  Eyebrows, and Hair, and Hands, and Weight.

She starves herself to  Lose  The weight

She can’t hold her boyfriend's hand, Her mother Called them ugly Over and Over Again. 

Now she just cuts to  Feel something She is numb

n u m b

Books allow her to escape But the father tells her she is Lazy Worthless Because she spends  Three Hours  Reading

How can this girl be So sad So broken So starved and bruised and scarred?

How can this girl be me?