At seventeen she has seen too much and can barely keep up with her overwhelming thoughts

She’s been verbally assaulted by high school boys with dirty minds and told that all that matters is the way that her body looks

She can’t be too skinny where people can see her bones but she can’t be too chubby to the point where her stomach has rolls

And if she has just one slice of pizza she’s picked on for not eating but if she has three or four

damn is she over eating

She wasn’t insecure about her cellulite until one wild night where a man way older than her stopped her to tell her she had “ripples” on her skin and should probably “check that out”

And she used to never care about the way her stomach hung over the top of her jeans when she sat down until the talk all over school was how she was super fat and round

Her butt is something that she hides because she doesn’t like it being stared at by crowds of guys and she always wears a sweater when her shirt is low so she can avoid the boys from calling her a hoe

Harsh words like;

Hoe, whore, slut, fat, ugly

Constantly being passed around from guy to guy like it’s a fun little game they like to play

But while they’re laughing and having fun she’s drowning and losing her desire to continue on

The body of a teenage girl is an object that men like to take advantage of

Young women wouldn’t have to fear their bodies or hate themselves if men could look away or keep their mouths shut

Women aren’t objects, they are human beings that are just trying to live life happily and it’s a shame that even at seventeen she has to hide and cry at the end of every night.