Eating Disorder Poetry

Fat Body

fat body
round face
memories of thinness
i can't erase

can't even look
mirrors don't lie
breaking scales
i want to cry

look away
or turn to stone
hideous sight
it's all i own

ruled by desire
need to be thin
ritual complete
living in sin

impossible dream
out of control
fill the void
stuff the whole

eating starving
it's all the same
looking for love
living in shame

needing so much
without a right
deserving nothing
she gives up the fight

Kim (5/99)

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