Dear Anorexia
© By Talia J. Benzaken
Dear Anorexia,
It’s time to say goodbye.
If we stay together any longer,
I know that I will die.
We’ve been together for a while,
and shared our secrets, I know.
It’s hard for me to say this,
but it’s time to let you go.
Mommy warned me of your ways,
and how you didn’t treat me right.
When I told you of her worries,
you only put up a fight.
You made me poke my stomach,
and squeeze my meatless thighs.
And though I was only skin and bones,
I saw fat and hatred through your eyes.
With all the pain I had to suffer,
and the hunger I went through,
I realize I’m much better off
not to be with you.
So as I tell you my last words,
and bid you my farewell.
I can feel myself regaining strength,
and cannot wait to tell.
You will soon find another,
to haunt her and to scare.
and I only hope that she, too,
will show you she doesn’t care.
I know that you will want to stay,
and pressure me to try.
But I am telling you now and for good,
Goodbye Anorexia. Goodbye.
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You say I’m not good enough/
I’m fat and weigh too much/
That the scale, it lies/
You cloud my eyes/
With delusions of obesity and weight/
You say I’m ugly, and too fat to get a date/
That boys will love a skinnier me/
That I’m not as thin as I could be/
You entrap me, ensnare me/
Starve me, and scare me/
Food is not the enemy/
To think so would be elementary/
But I’m stronger now/
And not a cow/
I’m happy as I am/
You call it “Thinspiration”/
I’d call it exploitation/
But now you’re gone and I am free/
I’m happy here, just being me/
Above is one written by me
-AntiAnaEmo-