Society

• Zoe Lee Vander Does, Grade 10, Sorell School
• Poetry
• 2014

Excellence Award in the 'The Text Generation 2014' competition

Society told me to be skinny,
They said it’s the only way I’d be pretty.
So I shrunk my size every day,
Just so society could get their way.

Society told me to have perfect skin,
They said it’s the only way I’d ever fit in.
So I used make-up every day,
Just so society could get their way.

Society told me to stop being weird,
They said it’s causing everyone fear.
So I became dull and boring,
I did that for society every morning.

Society’s weird and hard to trust,
But oddly enough,
Society is us.