Shrinking!
Tw: eating disorders
Deflation is my air
Hunger is my fuel
To power through my days
At the loneliest high school
-2
I want the warmth of friendship but
Their cold shoulders rub me raw
But perhaps they’ll finally see me
If I have a body without flaw
-4.2
So I eat an apple slowly
Block all memory of the past
Make my body worth a boy
So they’ll want to hang with me at last
+1
Lunch? What’s that?
Go to the library instead!
Do some homework to fill the void
So I don’t wish that I was dead
-2.8
It’s poison that it’s working
But its so hard to understand
That it’s danger what I’m doing
Now with red solo cups in hand
-3.2
I could totally stop this now
But I’m not sure why I would
When everyone and their mother
Tells me “wow you look so good!”
0
There’s elation in control
Power I’ve never felt before
Because in being so much less of me
I just know that I’ll have more