Ignore the hunger
Find the balance point
Between skinny and healthy
But if the scale tips
Don't be surprised
Because you brought this
Onto yourself
Suck in your stomach
Day in and day out
Until the days begin to merge
Even if I am too skinny
I don't cry about it;
Crying is a sign of weakness
It's all my fault anyway
I shouldn't have been born
Fat and ugly
So, to fix it,
I became empty
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Sounds of a Fish Attempting to Scale a Skyscraper
Poetry*Finished - first anthology in the Skyscrapers series* Hold fast onto life For it soon slips by. Find the things you love And hold onto them tight. But not too tight, For sometimes they leave Or find something more interesting To shove up their sle...
