I'M Not a Pretty Princess Anymore
Mommy kept me from school today
She was too tired to find me clean clothes
Cause her boyfriend just left
And I made her mad
When I spilled my cereal on the floor
I didn’t mean to
I pulled on my stretchy pink stockins’
They are ripped now
and torn
I looked around for my ballerina shoes
The ones that used to have
the pretty pink bow
but I think Mommy put them in the trash
My crown is missin’ a side
So it sits kinda crooked
And it’s missin’ all its diamonds
Daddy said they were real
But it’s not sparkly no more
And since Daddy left Mommy and me
I know I won’t get a new one
The TV is playing my favorite
Sponge Bob but I have to keep
the sound from bothering Mommy
I can see me in the TV
Like I’m sittin’ on the bottom of the sea
A knot is forming
Under my swollen eye
And I can see that too
Mommy’s on the couch
And I don’t want to wake her up
Just to tell her I’m hungry
And to tell her I’m sad
‘cause I’m startin’ to feel like,
Since Daddy left,
I’m not a pretty princess anymore
Copyright © Marco Borda | Year Posted 2007
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