Anorexia Nervosa

A child
No more than 12 years old
Sees images of women
Thin
Beautiful
Rich
Wanted
She looks in the mirror
She doesn't see the image
Her body doesn't fit the mold
Movies, TV and magazines
Tell her she is not what they want
She is not thin
She is not beautiful
Everyday her eyes cry as she looks at who she is
The perfect her hidden within
The beautiful soul they will not let her see
She diets
She starves
Still she does not fit the mold
She feels unloved
Unwanted
Eating less than a cracker a day
Throwing up the scant food she eats
Her body changes
Wasting away
They make her up
She wears a beautiful white dress
They close the lid
Denied the perfect her
The person she should have been
She lies in eternal rest
But she is loved
She is wanted
She will be missed




Poetry by Rob Taylor
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Written on 2007-10-20 at 08:15

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Lea Foverskov
what an extremely sad, but good and true poem. it is so important to be aware of this dreadful disease, and writing and talking about contributes to this. so an important poem, but also good in its poetry - there is a flow and rhythm over it, occasionally punctuated, that i enjoy. great piece!

-Lea
2007-10-20