One word can change the world

One world taken wrong can destroy it

The power of a compliment

Small Girls wearing cute dresses looking down

Trying to hide how anxious they are on the inside

“I’m ugly even when I try”

They say losing the bangs will make seem the same

And she listened

This all happened before she hit 2nd grade

But one day

Someone looked at her face and said one word

Believe

Believe in what could be

Even if you can’t see

The beauty that you give

She started to cry

But looking into her eyes

They said everything was going to fine

Maybe not know

Maybe not later

But one day

These words gave her the power to pick up the broken pieces of herself

And put them back together

Her heart will never be the same

one sentence gave her the will to keep going

She began to try to tell her story

people judged

Judging her

Telling her she’s just another lier

She just an overdramatic

FREAK

That no one in their right head

Will care about

She repeated this until

It became the truth

No one can convince her

She would still talk but apologize after every word

She couldn’t be wrong

Speak wrong

She had to be

PERFECT

They pulled at the string that kept her together

Tug

Tug

stretch

Tug

Pull

snap

But this snap was not fast

It was slow

Pulling each individual thread apart

Pulling for so long that she no longer left the pain

They said the words that they knew would hurt her

Your just a girl

They could never make a difference in the world

her heart collapsed down the drain

All she felt was a cough

Because

She already thought it was gone.