Perfect Girl

I wanna be perfect.

I wanna be the type of perfect

that you see in magazines and on the TV.

I wanna look like her-

the girl in the red dress,

with the long black hair,

and the slender lean legs.

I wanna burn off all of my scars,

cover up all of the flaws,

and take away the pain.

I just wanna be perfect.

With a perfect life 

and a perfect family.

I just wanna be perfect.

I wanna be perfect for you.

Reviews

[Egoless]

great poem! awesome flow and references. it sucks trying to be something that doesn't exist.

[GTVile]

Meh, perfect is plastic and plastic is synthetic. The scars, the flaws, the blemishes all are what make you, you. You is the best thing that you can be. A thought-provoking piece. I liked that you added a specific direction at the end, to whoever the intended recipient of the sentiment is. This is a good revelation into a specific series of thoughts.

[Eagle Cruagh]

You are already perfect
To the man who loves you
To even me.
They say nobody is perfect
But they are dead wrong.
The man who loves you/or will
and even me
We all know you are the perfect girl
----- John

[Mockingbird]

this is an honest treatise that most of us woman aspire to. we want to be accepted by everone else but we sometimes have a condition called body dysmorphia, a sympton of anorexia...but to be what perfect means to us is not their concern, it is our own concern. we want to be the 'it' girl. this was a nice piece of writing.

[Distant horizons]

I've still to figure out what perfect is. Great write. Nice flow.