PrettyThin

What real girl hasn't aspired to be a Princess?

Royalty fears no pain;

has skin that glows with health

and incadescent beauty.

All Princesses have their Prince,

eternal happiness and unlimited weath.

But a Paper Princess...

that is something entirely new.

A one-dimensional self, soul, body--

possessed by one driving force:

to be Skin Thin.

Paper Princesses

don’t eat their dinners or sleep through the night.

Paper Princesses

starve and scream and storm and cry and cut.

(If I cry much more,

my paper skin will wilt,

melting off of paper bones.)

I want to be a real girl.

Real Girls

have hearts that don’t ache with a physical pain.

Real Girls

eat their potatoes and have sweet dreams of their Far-Away Princes.

Real Girls still think that Princes exist.

Real Girls are the real Princesses.

I want to be a real girl,

a Me-Girl who doesn't hurt herself,

a She-Girl that is loved by all.

I used to be a Princess.

But I turned to paper.

So much for Happily Ever After.