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Tap Thud Crunch Swish an endless, fruitless search for that one word the perfect onomatopoeia to express the sound of footfalls on a mountain trail But perhaps that is right it is not a sound it is a sound, a feeling, a smell, a thought indistinguishable United United by lightness Rapid sound of trainers touching earth Feeling of strength, speed Smell of sweat and crushed pine needles Thought of invincibility, thought of lightness Gone The legs don't beat they plod muscles play games, giving a taste of lightness just to show what you're missing then pain. sick and slowly building ball and chain slowing weighting Stop. But I need the lightness need it more than air more than water more than food more than food Maybe, if they had less weight to carry The legs would work again? But who am I kidding They'll never work they don't deserve the fuel the food can't control the muscles can't control the pain can't regain the lightness Need to find the lightness won't eat until I do
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Jun 12, 2014
Jun 12, 2014 at 9:00 PM UTC
Lightness
Tap Thud Crunch Swish an endless, fruitless search for that one word the perfect onomatopoeia to express the sound of footfalls on a mountain trail But perhaps that is right it is not a sound it is a sound, a feeling, a smell, a thought indistinguishable United United by lightness Rapid sound of trainers touching earth Feeling of strength, speed Smell of sweat and crushed pine needles Thought of invincibility, thought of lightness Gone The legs don't beat they plod muscles play games, giving a taste of lightness just to show what you're missing then pain. sick and slowly building ball and chain slowing weighting Stop. But I need the lightness need it more than air more than water more than food more than food Maybe, if they had less weight to carry The legs would work again? But who am I kidding They'll never work they don't deserve the fuel the food can't control the muscles can't control the pain can't regain the lightness Need to find the lightness won't eat until I do
#pain#running#anorexia
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ember-grace
Jun 12, 2014
Jun 12, 2014 at 9:00 PM UTC
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