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Am I Pretty Enough Yet?

By Heather Lauren
October 7, 2019
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Am I pretty enough yet?

To make you love me,

To crave me,

To want me as badly as I wanted you.

I fixed everything, inside and out.

I scrubbed at the deepest parts of my soul until they came out shiny, pleasant and new.

Those ugly things, I buried deep down for you.

 

Am I pretty enough yet?

I polished my hair for you.

I wore pleasant chemicals for you,

I fixed what was broken so it wouldn’t harm you.

I would never let it harm you.

 

Am I pretty enough yet?

Surely, I’m pretty enough yet.

 

That you would see pass the artifice,

Past the paid for bodies, the unnaturally perfect hair,

Those could never distract you,

How could they distract you?

Am I pretty enough yet?

I have to be pretty enough yet.

After hours of punishment to tone what you once adored.

What you stopped holding, stopped craving.

Stopped kissing, stopped touching.

Am I pretty enough yet?

 

To turn your eye back to the center,

Back to the heart.

Am I pretty enough yet?

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Heather Lauren

Heather resides in the heart of North Carolina with her husband, 3 kids and 2 Labradors. When she is not meeting the tireless demands of motherhood, she works full time as a Financial Counselor while completing her Bachelor's in English & Creative Writing. After receiving a degree in Business Administration, she realized she would rather be poked in the eye-repeatedly than take another business class. Currently she can be found revising her first novel and working on her second. Heather is a tea snob and urban fantasy book junkie. When not writing she can be found sipping copious amounts of tea and watching reruns of Gilmore Girls, Grey's Anatomy, Supernatural and Charmed.

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