Naive I Was

I was a naive little girl
Cause my sister got the looks
I was always in the side lines
Trying as best as I could 
to fight for my spotlight
If she was being pure 
I was being tainted 
She wanted to wait until marriage 
I had sex just to spite my parents
She was into her books
and since she already had looks
Guys flocked to her 
I had to always work ten times harder
Never in the right direction
She was moving up
I was moving deeper into the cemetery range
Pretty soon after the drugs, sex,lies 
I was too far gone to recognize
I feel dirty, I feel trashed, I feel compromised.
   I feel sad. 
   Why?
Copyright © | Year Posted 2007

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