Pseudobeautificationality
This world lives by pseudobeautificationality
Let me give you a translation, to bring it to reality.
It is the perfect people we see in every magazine and TV program.
We know its fake, but we are all victims to this scam.
We see them and want our bodies to look like theirs.
So we diet insanely and run up and down the stairs.
Men try to mirror the perfectly impossible six-pack,
and women pay to have a more noticable rack.
We buy the most expensive make-up and workout machines.
Sending the message to be perfect, before we're even teens.
Trying to push our bodies beyond their humanly possible borders.
Then we wonder why early teenagers have eating disorders.
We need to see the real beauty in the human being.
We need to know that beauty, goes beyond just what we're seeing.
Get rid of the smoke and mirrors and come back to actuality.
But it will never happen, in this world of pseudobeautificationality.
*****for Paula Swanson's contest "If you build it, they will misuse it."
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