Creative writing inspired by the Song: The Story of Beauty Artist: Destiny's Child

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Katie Crawford 10H

Song: The Story of Beauty

Artist: Destiny’s Child

Mood: Sad, Upsetting, Hate and Anger

Setting: House

        

        I sit there every night just thinking to myself, why is life this way? Is this all a dream, are the bad times forever, because that’s how it seems.

        Every night this poor young girl I see is crying herself to sleep and I wonder why it’s coming from someone as beautiful and graceful as her. Since her mother has gone away she looks so frightened, alone and tense. She’s alone with her stepfather who she hates and anger fills him. She’s scared to be alone with him and just thinking about him makes her feel unsafe. Her mother doesn’t believe the horrible, sick and nasty things that he does to her. Her mother left for a couple of weeks through her business and said she would be back soon.

She feels sick with fright; the hairs on her neck stand on end as if some thing from a horror film has entered the house and her life.

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        He abuses her emotionally and made her feel like she is worthless. She is crying out loud, just wishing her mother will come back and catch this horrid man, who was supposed to be her dad, respect her and not do the things he is doing. He touched her in places where he shouldn’t have touched her. He did some things to her that he shouldn’t have done.

All she needs is prayer and strength. She cried and cried; she was alone and had no one to help her. She ran into her room and paged her mother. ...

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