What Did You Expect?

Is this what you expected?

 

Did you think you’d find?

A pretty, blonde girl

With her head in a toilet

Throwing up slices of apple

And crying to Bon Iver?

 

Did you think you’d see?

A leggy brunette

With rosy, tear tracked cheeks

Contemplating but never quite

Following through?

 

Did you think you’d hear?

The cries of a handsome boy

Scared of presenting

In a class full of people

He’d hardly spoken to?

 

What did you get instead?

A small girl.

Just enough to be noticed

But not for more than a second.

Drinking too much and taking too many.

Trying and failing.

An unlikable personality.

A face of old mascara tears.

Five-day greasy hair.

 

And a heart so broken

Even you couldn’t fix it.

Reviews

[Holy Gma]

very powerful imagery that evokes deep feelings.