Open your eyes

Not being accepted
the way I am
treated differently
because I am a girl
a teenage girl

Yes I'm still a girl
Yes I make mistakes
and although the time
went by fast
I developed fast as well
I'm not the same girl
I was 5 years ago
anymore

So don't treat me like one
Please stop being so denigrating
Please
Can't you see it hurts?
No you don't
You don't see anything
You're so different
I want to accept you
the way you are
But you make it hard
for me to do so

I've never really liked you
Couldn't care less if you left
Wanted you to leave at many
many occasions

You could act violent
I was scared of you
Scared of my own dad

I never loved you
But I do care
If I didn't care at all about you
I couldn't care less
about the way you treated me

I do care
and I'm begging you to change
I know it comes out of habit
The way you were being raised too
But just because you are familiar with it
Because you came out okay
Doesn't mean it is the right way
Sometimes the right way
is to open your eyes
Search for something new
you're not familiar with yet
but you can come familiar with

Open you eyes
Recognize me
Imagine
you being me
Think
Don't be afraid to admit your mistakes
you cannot erase them
but you can prevent yourself
from making the same mistakes over
and over again

Open your eyes
Lift your head
You can't see
when you walk
with your head down
in the dark
eyes closed.