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Nothing
Each day, you’re wearing away
Your flesh and your fat; your mind and your soul
Pound by pound it rips away pigments of who you are
Days spent counting calories and fighting them off
Until you are only a body, nothing to suggest there is
A person cradled inside of those frail bones
And what person starves them self of all happiness
in search of happiness?
You wake up, and repeat the actions, like a skeleton set on autopilot
Food; trash, fingers; throat, body; sweat, eyes; cry
There is nothing left of you;
You are a disorder
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I didn't know about themself not being a word...thank you!
Since it's freeverse, I don't try to keep all the lines the same length, I prefer mine like this actually. But I do understand what your saying, many people may not enjoy reading it. Thank you for the helpful feedback(:
Anyway, some lines are disturbingly long while some are not? I think they could use some work. Second, there is noe word such as themself. Rather, it is thmselves. Or at least I think so. But since this is a poem, grammar isn't that bad a monster.
And, oh, this is really a great poem!!!
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