body love
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forgive me body, i have failed
i failed to love you and cut again
who knows how long it has been
i made a list of what to do
and chose to cut on you
i thought about all the bad
1000 years from now
when they find my delicate
laced up corpse—
my femur will whisper
Anthropologists will murmur
—Here
is the
This is a poem that my friend, Veronica, and I wrote. Hope you enjoy!
Your feedback would be greatly appreciated. (:
Thick
You called me that
Tonight.
I opened myself up
People say
Fat Shaming is wrong.
But while they bring people up
Who just eat because they "can't control themselves"
and tell them that that's what "Real women" look like,
When that really isn't the case.
"Real women have curves"
A real woman has the nerve
to say, I'm large and that's okay
but don't tell me, a skinny girl
I don't have a say
In her identity
Her gender
Her worth
Your body is a fortress, your body is your prize
Your body is a temple where you go to hide
Your body is perfect.
Won't show you how to work it, that's up to you to decide
Decreate it, paint it
