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tiana-and-eva
Canada
It seems unsolvable Completely Improbable An equation With no answer They tell me to add pounds But they add more doubt Subtract self-hate But all I do Is lose myself in the problem Beauty standards? I’m on the bottom I’m a fraction Denominated by ideals of Perfection Numerated by my Own demons Like pi I’m irrational However I am not infinite Only temporary Average me out Calorie count Weight in pounds Calculate the BMI But My Inverse Operation Can’t be ignorable Trying to find a semblance Of self control Factor it out Solve for x What piece Of the puzzle Did they forget When they wrote my Problem Keep subtracting I’m shrinking Prime number Divide me By my own weight Half of a person Less than the other Negative exponent In a positive Expression Graph it out Linear equation You don’t need A computer To see the Decrease in Motivation 3D? More like 2 dimensions Paper thin with Pencil markings Multiple choice? More like multiple guess Balance the scale Life is a short answer question Sum it up In a few words It’s the beauty equation
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Nov 9, 2015
Nov 9, 2015 at 9:59 PM UTC
The Beauty Equation
Her emotions changed like the leaves in the fall: trees bleeding orange and red and gold until falling gracefully to the ground.
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Oct 19, 2015
Oct 19, 2015 at 6:31 PM UTC
Autumn
I’m ignored silent watchful a body ahead a body behind as she crosses the street on the strip of solitude the sun around which the metropolis buzzes I’m tired always moving going somewhere going nowhere following her movements like a blind man follows death I am not of colour but rather a darker shade of cracked cement I’m hiding the lights are off I have no dimension I have but senses I am a witness but do I witness a monster? or do I witness a human? I’m dreaming my oxygen the sun sinks below the ever turning earth a world of colours painted I am alone in my thoughts does she go to sleep like I do? I’m dying she’s fading days are shorter the darkness taking me farther from the light would she move so quickly had she known what I witnessed? I wouldn’t know for I am not present I feed and live of the sun I am more than the metal links that chained me corroded weathered rusting they break easily I walk forward I feel I breathe no longer held captive by a brighter being I am my own freedom a voice a truth no longer bound by the light of day or the illusion of presence the illusion of living freedom from the silence that stole me a colourful sunset my fear of the darkness no longer I am
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Oct 19, 2015
Oct 19, 2015 at 6:28 PM UTC
shadows