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Fat

I feel like I am enclosed in a cage.

Being strangled by hate and rage.

My lungs are screaming

And I have really been meaning

To inform you that I am not who I was.

 

Fat. Pig. Whale. Huge.

These are just a few,

Of the words young men throw at me.

Who is the woman they want me to be?

I am told to be myself

Yet if I don’t conform to the ideal image I am disgusting.

 

I feel like people can never see me.

I will always be the weight that lingers around my soul.

I am being choked and poked and pulled.

I CAN’T EVER BE WHO I WANT TO!

 

Why are you staring at me like that?

Is it because I’m fat.

Fat.

F-A-T.

Three letters- one meaning.

A word that is so rooted to my soul

that its burning a hole.

 

Light me on fire

Watch me burn-

Away those extra calories!

At least I would look thinner.

Maybe then you’ll see me.

Maybe not.

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dorothy
22 / F / American
Published
Feb 25, 2015
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