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Growth

A dancing child; a ballerina

A pirouetting adolescent; an anorexic

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Written by
samantha-18
Published
Oct 20, 2013
Lines·Words
2·10
Notes

A thought inspired by a ghost girl

Her bones are weak and malleable and

She spends far too long in the bathroom

And her heart is stretched thin

Feeding her bones and fueling a

Love for a toddler in her tiara and

Tutu; twirling for a world of maybe

A hundred souls

A little body moving

In time to the rhythm

Of a woman far off in her dreams

Still years away from the

Emaciated young lady

More spirit than body

Still stretched thin and torn at the seams

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