Eating Disorders, Young Boys and Girls
The glass has teeth—
it bites at dawn,
gnawing away what flesh I thought was mine.
A rib is a rung to heaven,
but the ladder never ends.
Numbers bloom red on the bathroom scale,
they hum like insects in the skull.
I am a mannequin—
wire shoulders, hollow eyes,
a smile stitched with needles.
Children bruise themselves
against invisible rulers.
They carve equations into skin:
less, less,
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Categories:
eating disorders, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
A Letter About My Friend Ana
A letter about my friend Ana
She stood tall, skeletal, and proud
Her glowing locks choking those that were drawn too close,
Her blinding smile removing the vision of anyone who dared to smile back
She scared me,
But being scared is better than not feeling at all
And having someone is better than having no one,
So I followed her.
One
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Categories:
eating disorders, 11th grade, abuse, addiction,
Form: Free verse
The Girl
The girl thought she had it beat,
But then she couldn’t stand to eat,
Not even a single piece of meat.
The girl started to disappear,
She begged for help but no one could hear.
She didn’t want to be here,
All she was, was a peer.
The girl was so obsessed with her weight,
She began monitoring what she ate.
Soon she
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Categories:
eating disorders, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Slippery Slopes
How slippery the slope is
That you just climbed up.
6/13/2018
Kale Brereton
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Categories:
eating disorders, addiction, anxiety, depression, for
Form: Epigram
The Beauty of You
The beauty of you
Ups and downs in life
This beautiful journey
If life was just good days
It’d be flat just like the Prairies
But its not
And neither are you
As much as we are the same
We are different too
Our beauty lies within
Sometimes it is in a dark place
Sometimes it is hidden
This beauty of yours
Is not just your reflection
This beauty
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Categories:
eating disorders, beautiful, beauty, cheer up,
Form: Rhyme
Eating Disorders
i once had thought that i was far too fat,
my greatest dread was going to the pool,
and so for hours and hours, pensive i sat,
and then i thought, ill just not eat at all!
i dropped the pounds, i lost all the weight,
slim again, my diet had worked a treat,
but now i felt hungry, i ate
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Categories:
eating disorders, healthme,
Form: Sonnet