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i once was free but i let you tie my hands, my feet and tighten, until the person i was evaporated with ropes, chains, prison bars you held me up until i forgot how to stand without you i once was free but i let you drown me, despondent at the bottom of the sea. i waited so long to breathe choking, gasping, panicking, until i didn't care to breathe anymore; until i didn't know how to. i once was free, but like fire ravaging underfoot, i let you consume me. you chewed away at my sanity with every bite counting, measuring, running just until the fat was gone until i, was gone. i once was free, but then you pushed me a little too far this time who knew i would end up here. "i just wanted to be skinny" i repeated "i just wanted to be skinny" until all i wanted was to be dead. and there i was, holding on by a string. the same string you tied around my waist, and then, around my neck and pulled tighter, tighter, i once was free.
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Aug 29, 2014
Aug 29, 2014 at 11:35 PM UTC
oh dear mental illness
i once was free but i let you tie my hands, my feet and tighten, until the person i was evaporated with ropes, chains, prison bars you held me up until i forgot how to stand without you i once was free but i let you drown me, despondent at the bottom of the sea. i waited so long to breathe choking, gasping, panicking, until i didn't care to breathe anymore; until i didn't know how to. i once was free, but like fire ravaging underfoot, i let you consume me. you chewed away at my sanity with every bite counting, measuring, running just until the fat was gone until i, was gone. i once was free, but then you pushed me a little too far this time who knew i would end up here. "i just wanted to be skinny" i repeated "i just wanted to be skinny" until all i wanted was to be dead. and there i was, holding on by a string. the same string you tied around my waist, and then, around my neck and pulled tighter, tighter, i once was free.
#suicide#illness#eating#disorder#mental#anorexia#bulimia#recovery
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katieswagbag
Aug 29, 2014
Aug 29, 2014 at 11:35 PM UTC
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