she stopped looking at
the way the stars
reflected on her window.
she stopped longing for
those midnight drives.
she started counting the calories
on everything she touched,
slowly becoming
more encaged
in herself
making herself as small
as she can
ankles digging into her skin
and everyone asked her
"what happened to you"
but the truth was,
nothing.
she hadn't changed
she had just evolved into what she was
all along.
