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A never ending cycle
When most of your family is short you can’t help but also get those cursed genes.
I mean the world is unfair so can I really complain?
As a short, average looking girl, I really can’t offer much
Growing up while everyone grew around you
Leaves you with the desire to reach for them
So you do, or at least try to
As you try to reach
The whole world comes down against you
Once again making you be at your lowest
Yet without giving up you reach out once again
And once you feel like you’re about to reach
You end up coming down once again
Becoming something never-ending
An endless cycle of reaching and falling
Never being able to reach
Being left in the bottomless pit once again
And once you're finally ready to give up
You begin to take a step back
You begin to see
That while pretending to be someone you’re not
All the growth you have been reaching for
Had always been right in front of you
In a world with a mentality of to each their own
You can't help but look up to those better than you
Why is it that within our own story we’re not even the main character?
The funny thing is
Isn’t the main character usually different from the rest?

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This piece was written in order to connect both the genres of body and mind since it's something I often struggle with accepting about myself. Struggling to accept both the way I look and not being enough is something that takes much of my time so this piece was created in order to convey both of my biggest insecurities.