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The Disease of Perfection
Perfection is the disease that affects the girl.
Perfection sneaks up and infects us.
Perfection eats the girl with stress.
Perfection makes the girl afraid of failing.
Perfection makes the girl afraid of telling.
How she feels
Is always a secret.
She must be perfect.
Perfection gets the best of me.
Saying who the girl should be.
Perfection is the infection eating the girl.
Eventually, the girl will be gone.
People think the girl will never reach perfection.
The girl thinks about what she needs to do to reach perfection.
The girl is scared of a correction.
Correction is not perfection.
Perfection is the disease inside the girl.
The girl wants the disease to go away.
The disease will stay there forever
And eventually, eat the girl away.
Perfection will be gone.
But until then,
The girl must be perfection.
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For years I have always felt that I need to be perfect. One day my English Composition I teacher gave us a list of human qualities and told us we would write a poem based on one of these qualities. I know I am not the only teen who struggles with feeling imperfect. So I wrote a poem about how teens in society feel the need to be perfect.
Sofia Mezo Mil
Hillsboro High School
Freshman