This is wonderful. I just got my ears pierced this summer, didn't hurt, glad I did it, but yeah. I can relate to this piece a lot and I really, really love it. My favorite lines were "(apart from my mindwhich used to feel so out of place)" (that I never really cared if I was natural or not)when I used to draw little circles on my lobes with pretty-little-pink-feltips." This is just such a perfectly pretty piece. It's so permanent, if that makes any sense. I can just relate so much and I just adore it and it would be a crime not to put in on favorites. Breathtaking work, never stop writing. .

hm.. i never had my ears pierced either, but that was because i watched my friend's little brother rip her earring out, twice, and you wouldn't believe how much a torn ear bleeds. So I suppose my reason for having unpierced lobes is the same as your current one- i am afraid. good poem.

gorgeous. really, valid points and exactly the same reason I put off getting mine peirced. ;) lovely, lovely poem.

~* noelle

I found this poem a sort of reality check on myself *smile*.

I wasnt able to get my ears pierced until I was 12. I use to try and come up with reasons why it wasnt cool to get them pierced and these were my reasons as well. I would actually draw with marker on my ear because it was cool lol. What we do to be something.

I like this though. It is like you went through a whole thought process and came to your own revelations. I like when people realize what they were in the past doesnt fit with who they are now... a growing process. This poem was almost a coming of age poem. I love that in your writing. Your descriptions and reasons were almost whimsicle and humorous to you as you wrote it... sort of shameful or questioning yourself. But in all reality I could read the seriousness of it.

Very good piece. Great flow. Unique topic. Fabulous as always dear elizabeth. Keep up the wonderful writing.

this is so interesting...i love how accurately you portray a little girl trying too hard not to be cool. I can definately relate-I'm guilty of this too (though I did get my ears pierced).I especially enjoyed the line "I never wore earings because I didn't believe in pretty girls."Keep writing.