Birthdays

Sure I’ve had some shitty birthdays,
but they’ll never out shit the day I realized I didn’t wear the same size jeans as my friends.

That my body had other plans
even though I wanted to stay flat and shapeless
for the rest of my life.

There are days when things go wrong,
and then there are days where you feel so uncomfortable in
your own skin you want to run away and never look back.
When everyone stares at you because you’re the only girl who has to wear a bra
even though you still think boys have cooties.

Sometimes you wish you could erase all of those embarrassing moments
and paint over that extra fat that you carry around in your shirt.
In the end those shitty birthdays are going to suck, but it could be worse…

© Autumn Micketti