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What It's Like
It’s the embarrassing moment when your stomach growls in a silent room
It’s feeling hopeless because you can’t lose weight
It’s crying as you throw up your pain
It’s headaches and fainting out of the blue
It’s hating yourself for not being pretty enough
It’s awkward guilt when they tell you to eat more
It’s crying in the mirror at your own stomach
It’s the haunted mind, filled with ghosts of your flesh
It’s force-feeding yourself for staring eyes
It’s tasting only cardboard and flavorless lies
It’s feeling as if you're not good enough
It’s staying up with an empty stomach
It’s measuring yourself obsessively
It’s freezing in the summer
It’s forgetting how to eat
It’s hell, but heavenly.
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This is about what anorexia feels like. I was inspired by people asking me about my struggle with it so I wrote a poem describing that struggle.