Hayley Gene Penner

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Smaller

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Smaller

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It's a tired fascination with everything I'm not

And wasting nights wondering

Trying to figure out

Oh, maybe if I'm quiet

Maybe if I'm light

Oh, maybe I'll be something

Someone you would like

If I'm smaller and

If I'm different

Just a little less

Would you love me?

If I wasn't this

With some bigger lips

And some smaller hips

Would you love me?

It's an overdone obsession

With chasing what I'm not

And something I've been hiding

Space I'm taking up

And slouching in my shoulders

And curving in my back

Afraid that all this space I'm in

Is just too much to have

If I'm smaller and

If I'm different

Just a little less

Would you love me?

If I wasn't this

With some bigger lips

And some smaller hips

Would you love me?

And I can't change what just stays the same

So I keep trying to love me how I'm made

I know I'm hating on my mother

I'm disrespecting dad

By spending nights trying

To change the way I am

I'm tearing at my structure

Pulling at my skin

Just wishing I was smaller and different

And I'm spitting on the people who love me just like this

Who don't wish that I was smaller or less of anything

And I'm yelling in my silence

So make the voices stop

Let me sleep in quiet

Not thinking that I ought to be

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Smaller and different

Just a little less

So you can love me

With none of this

And some bigger lips

And some smaller hips

So you can love me

And I can't change what just stays the same

But I keep trying to love me how I'm made

How I'm made

How I'm made

How I'm made

If I'm smaller and

If I'm different

Just a little less

Would you love me?

If I wasn't this

With some bigger lips

And some smaller hips

Would you love me?

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