Getting Over It

“You’re the only one with brown eyes,”

her mom said, as if it was something special.

She wondered why her eyes couldn’t be

green or blue like her siblings’.  

“She has a level head,”

adults said as if it was admirable.

She wondered why she was so boring

compared to the popular girls.

“She uses time to good advantage,”

wrote her teachers.

She thought, when teachers like you

you’re in trouble.

“I’m too tall,” said one.

“I’m too short,” said the other.

“I’m too average,” she said.

No one was satisfied.  

You can spend a whole life

learning to appreciate

the positives and overlook

the negatives of self and others.