Perfect American Imagery Presentation: Hiding the Flaws with Care
Heather has a Bachelor's Degree in English from Moravian College and has been freelance writing for more than 13 years.
From an early age, certain women have been told
Vulnerability was a sign of weakness to the world
Never declare your true feelings upfront with anyone
No need to be made a fool of without any provocation
Signs of anger and happiness need to be kept at bay
Be professional to everyone; even when you detest them
And want to throw a bucket of ice water on their heads for fun
Cat-fights belonged to the Real Housewives and Springer guests
Crying in public restrooms made you a spectacle
Everyone wanted to avoid; unless it took place on Maury
Where the female guest to find out which of 10 men
Fathered their child and revealed that none of them were
Exposed as someone of loose sexual preferences on TV
Would likely never grace a television screen due to high anxiety
Speaking in a room with 15 people as terrifying being around 10,000
Palms sweating worse than being in the Mojave Desert
Mouth dried out into a flesh colored cotton ball parched with nerves
Hard to formulate sentences and vision blurred from bright lights
Function better in smaller crowds on all entertainment subjects
Personal questions get danced around like Muhammed Ali in the ring
Avoiding his competitors before he stung them with a right hook
Hard to fathom the idea of letting someone inside
Your personal and private Fort Knox without knowing the code
Earned the capability of functioning without the National Guard
Surrounding your heart with barbed wire and an electric fence
Also, a sniper waiting in the wings to shoot anyone dangerous
Sometimes the idea of letting anyone inside your inner emotional sanctum
Downright scarier than watching Hannibal Lecter running towards you
With a fork in one hand and a knife in the other
Terrified of being judged as the weaker sex or person
Labelled as crazy or unfit to see daylight ever again
Used to burying those dark inferiority complex entanglements in sitcoms
Unable to mask insecurities anymore amongst phony laugh tracks
Accepted the fact that the lock needed to be burned off the internal vault
Door needed to be kept open no matter what
Not even a tidal wave will force it closed
Allowed everyone to gain general admission; as long as they paid the fee
And didn't steal any priceless jewels from the vault
Those were priceless and can never be replaced
Everything else not nailed down could go with the blessing of the house.
Good luck and choose wisely.