#nationaleatingdisorderawarenessweek
She wakes up in the morning
Hungry from last night
But she doesn’t eat breakfast
‘cause her jeans fit too tight
She looks into the mirror
Tears glisten in her eyes
She hates her reflection
But the mirror never lies
She rides the bus to school
And sits all alone
She wishes with all her might
To see all her bones
She gets to school at last
Self-conscious about her size
Because she still believes
That the mirror never lies
She walks from class to class
In the hallways by herself
While her classmates stop and wonder
About her collapsing health
But she never stops to listen
And doesn’t even try
She knows that they are wrong
Because the mirror never lies
When lunch time comes, she’s gone
Nowhere to be found
She never ever eats her lunch
She’s scared of gaining a pound
She walks past the lunch room
And smells the fruity pies
She really wants to eat them
But the mirror never lies
When school is finally over
And her homework is all done
She changes into shorts
And goes for a run
She runs and runs for hours
And sees the changing skies
She really wants to stop
But the mirror never lies
She finally goes home
And is forced to eat some dinner
While the whole time she wishes
That she could be thinner
She retreats to her room
And cries and cries and cries
She hates what she looks like
But the mirror never lies
She stands before the mirror
And pulls up her shirt
Pinches the bit of fat she has
And regrets eating dessert
She stares at her thin body
With no space between her thighs
She knows that she is fat
Because the mirror never lies
Feb 24, 2016
Feb 24, 2016 at 3:00 PM UTC
You hate what you see
when you look
at your reflection
so you do everything you can
and nothing at all
in hopes that you start
to waste away
Stopping yourself from living
will **** the passion in your eyes
and soon they will be incapable
of seeing brightness
and your new reflection
will be worse than the one
you hated before
They forget to tell you
the new shadows on your face
make everything seem darker
because there is less surface area
on which the sun can shine
No one will tell you
that laughter and late night pizza
with best friends and warm thoughts
will taste better
than emptiness and hunger
for something more
The food might leave
an aftertaste somewhat similar
to regret,
but at least it has more flavor
than the air you **** in
to keep yourself from faltering
Feb 26, 2015
Feb 26, 2015 at 8:50 PM UTC