Thus is long overdue;
God knows I've put you through hell, tried to make you anew.
It took so long for me to understand
The lengths you go to for me
Breathe and pump blood and give me energy
To dance and sing and laugh and jump,
Yet I deprived you
Of anything that gave you joy
Locked you up for hours,
Treated you like a broken toy,
discarded, useless, waste of space
Of that piece of cake, you can't have a taste.
Squeezed you into jeans two sizes too small,
Pinched and prodded and poked where you overflowed with love for this world
Let them call you names
Sometimes joining them too,
Day by day, believing it was true,
Ripped away your self esteem
And along with it the happy smile that could light up the whole damn night sky.
Let alone succeed, I didn't even let you try
to prove them wrong,
Engulf them with your warmth and beauty,
Seek comfort in your sea,
Of calming waters and raging storms,
Trauma left unresolved,
Packed away;
In t-shirts that shrouded you,
Leggings whose waistbands dug into you;
Some might say it's cruel
To challenge your own body to a duel
I just want to say I'm sorry,
For acting like I won
By shrinking you
To a fraction of your beauty
Because you deserve to be the whole damn sea,
Engulf those who say otherwise,
And to stand up for you,
I'll keep trying
Until the very last breath you breathe for me,
and start dying.
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Body Talks
PoetryA collection of poems based on hating, loving, accepting (and everything in between) yourself and your body. Terrifyingly raw, I'm laying my soul on the line and I hope you enjoy my hopeless rhymes.
