OctPoWriMo 2015: Day 26: Every Bride Should Feel Beautiful

Image by Beverly Tan

Every Bride Should Feel Beautiful

Pretty as a picture

The bride on her wedding day

Picture what was in her mind on this most wonderful

Day of her entire life

Wonderful thoughts--you would think so

Life has not been that kind to every girl

So it started back in childhood, this insecurity

Girl is told time and time again that she doesn't measure up

Insecurity, at first a shadow tiptoeing

Up it rises in the silence of her mind

Tiptoeing round the corners of her soul

Mind needling at her more and more as she grows

Soul spirals in a cycle of doubt and shame

Grows within her soul like a seed

Shame as the world becomes more transparent with its message

Seed planted springs forth with full realization

Message that girls who look like her should feel shame

Realization may be subtle like the smell of petrichor

Shame may burst through her like a lightning strike

Petrichor, and the lingering smell of realization

Strike her down with the understanding

Realization that she is short and plump

Understanding that most people see her as ugly

Plump no longer a sweet, childlike quality

Ugly girls are all too common in this world

Quality girls are such a rarity

World where girls are taught to hate the way they look

Rarity for a girl to be able to be confident on her wedding day

Look at her, mired in self-doubt when she should be smiling

Day so full of promise, heart so full of trepidation

Smiling because she loves him so

Trepidation because she fears the spell will be broken

So why can't we make this a world where no girl feels

Broken and ugly on her wedding day

Feels instead like she deserves the best

Day after day, whether celebration or just a day like any other

~Sadie~

Note:

I was very happy on my wedding day. However, I was not an obvious beauty like the lady in the wonderful picture. I was a short, plump Filipina, and part of me kept expecting my husband-to-be to suddenly come to the realization that he was marrying someone that the majority of the world saw as quite homely.

Fortunately for me, my long, lean wizard has never come to see his princess as a toad. After 35 years together (married for 32 of those) we still love each other very much.

How to Loop 101: 

There are no restrictions on meter or syllables or rhyme schemes (YAY!)

BUT we have a few rules!

Take the last word of a line. Skip a line. Use that word as the first word of that line. 

I know, sounds harder than it is, so basically take the last word of the FIRST line and use it as the first word of the THIRD line. Take the last word of the SECOND line and use it as the first word of the FORTH line. Last word of the THIRD line is the first word of the FIFTH line. And it keeps going on and on like that. 

Some people do it by stanzas. 

There is also a variation where there's no skipping and the last word of the line simply becomes the first word of the next line. Simpler, but personally I think it's a LOT harder.