I can't breathe.

It's this thick coating that's everywhere.

Suffocating my bones and weighing me down.

I can't breathe.

The fat keeps my ribs strangled and compressed.

They're cracking. It keeps getting tighter and tighter.

I can't breathe.

It's getting harder and harder to walk.

The pretty stars that float above my head taunt me.

They remind me of everything I'm not

Of everything I could've been if I hadn't given up on being beautiful.

I can't breathe.

It's so hard to breathe with the thoughts and feelings that cloud the air.

The words 'you're worthless' get caught in my throat and I choke.

I'm choking and nobody cares.

Nobody cares about me.

I need to make it stop.

Somebody make it stop.

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