Wednesday 30 December 2020

pact

 

you told me once that you liked

when i could feel your sadness

because then you werent the only one 

who wanted to die


but here i am

all these years later

still feeling the sadness

even though you no longer are

existinal crisis

 


bring me home from the moon

even here i'm afraid to get the help i need

i'm thinking about leaving the earth too soon

me

 how do you cope

when the weight of the world

is you?

Wednesday 9 December 2020

together, alone

 my mum

tells me she knows

i have panic attacks

and tells me, she does too.


and instead of telling each other

we should go and get help

we acknowledge each other and

i change the conversation

two birds one stone (reprise)

 we were 16 and

you were my best friend


they told me i was the reason you wanted to kill yourself

and you never denied it


you said you didn't mean it

but you never apologised


you wondered why i never got better

they wondered why i never got better

everyone wondered why i never got better


but how could i ever when this was all i could ever think about


and you never apologised

but they never did either.


we were 18

you were my friend


they told me that what you did was nothing

but you always denied it


you said you didn't mean it

but you never apologised


you wondered why i never got better

they wondered why i never got better

everyone wondered why i never got better


but how could i ever when this was all i could ever think about


and you never apologised

but they never did either.

body forgive me, eating forgive me.

 i still cannot forgive myself

and i do not know why


my friends do not know about my eating disorder

it was never serious enough

i'm sorry that i was never small enough to be anything but a success story

i was just a glow up story.


i still am.


no one believes me

except my other plus sized friend


i am healthier now than i ever was a size 14

and even then

i was still the largest person in the room

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