Covers a life in shadows,
Crying tears of fear, a melody
Colored by doubts, mourning
Common times when healthy and strong
Calm days, taken for granted
Considered normal, before normal
Corroded beneath a deadly disease
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, less.
The mirror spits back a stranger,
a body mangled into myth,
a coffin that walks,
polished with hunger.
Depression wears a crown of glass,
stress rattles its beads of bone.
We hate the face we are given,
we hate the face we invent.
The mirror waits, patient as winter,
to swallow us whole.
I trace every move you make,
I trace every note you breathe.
But you're a Mozart in disguise
How could I ever compete?
Blind with tears and rage,
I compared myself to what seemed bulletproof,
All while my doubts built up inside,
Forming an invisible bruise.
I tried to be more like you
Though I knew it was no use.
I swallowed all your words,
Like bitter, sacred juice.
What once was admiration
Turned into unhealthy obsession.
I was far too lost,
Blind to your quiet imperfections.
I called it love, but it proved to be venom.
I tried to be you, all the same.
I wore your voice like a second skin
And on the way, I lost my name.
I wish I had seen earlier: I can never be you,
No matter how I chased your tone.
After all, your song must be your own
And mine must learn to stand alone.
when no one’s watching, i am.
i watch myself
take that extra bite
regret that dessert
body check every mirror
but from the outside
no one sees me
they don’t know me
only i know me
myself
the imperfect image people see so perfectly on the outside
Living under the influence of unhealthy food
Is not a topic that has been frequently chewed
Unlike its well-known friend: alcohol abuse
The unhealthy food topic is more a recluse
In the past food talk centered around a diet
And half of the population would no doubt try it
Thinking that their weight is mostly what matters
Followed by comments that hopefully flatter
Mostly everyone gets sick once in a while
Or had colds of which we all have a large file
But being under the influence of unhealthy food
Is a thought that’s usually far less valued
Bottle and can labels that come from a barrel
List that drinking alcohol may cause some peril
Yet when has a package of food listed in part
Stating: consuming this stuff may be bad for the heart
But don’t think that I’m looking for Fed oversight
There’s too much already that it feels like a blight
No, it’s all about vital self-education
To help reduce poisonous medications
Or having to visit a health center some night
That have popped up everywhere; speaking of blight
This is more of a write, to help bring to the light
That bad food is like getting drunk every night
UNHEALTHY MARRIAGE
A wife was a wife indeed,
She has to pay for her deed.
Treating her man like a trash,
Just because he doesn't have cash.
She was thinking of being a better wife,
Not knowing she was hard as knife.
No form of remorse about her attitude,
And she never have the heart of gratitude.
The husband has endure enough,
He was patient when things are tough,
And never fail to perform his responsibilities,
Even when his wife rebuke him of his duties.
Love become homeless in their marriage,
Divorce is now painted as their image.
The rain of beautiful wedding end,
Their marriage story becomes a trend.
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I’m sitting in unhealthy air;
The sky is filled with haze
From fires up in Canada,
With acres still ablaze.
This morning’s sun was glorious,
An orange-pinkish ball,
Resulting from the smoke but still
Admired and snapped by all.
It’s apropos because today
In 1944
The Normandy invasion
Turned the tide to change the war.
Those soldiers suffered more than just
The quality of air
And fewer people every year
Know of the battles there.
So here I am on D-Day
Thinking of that sacrifice
As I sit and breathe unhealthy air
Against some good advice.
Unhealthy friendship
Lopsided. I think you would say
The way a taker takes more than a giver can give away
A sad situation, somewhat injust
How someone can take so much that the giver loses trust
Unhinged, unbalanced, the scales tipped too far
Where the giver wants the taker to raise their bar
I made the hardest decision, you'll see...
It was definitely because of you, not me
Not meaning unwell, harm or ill
I couldn't keep giving, I simply lost the will
It's not the words spoken that mean much at all
It's the action which is taken when you see a friend fall
A giver will always catch without hesitation
A taker may catch but after much deliberation
The times you would bail quite unexpectedly
Far too many times you ignored my plea
It wasn't equal or even a bit of give and take
Many of your words completely fake
Unhinged, unbalanced, the scales tipped too far.
How the giver keeps on giving and the taker takes it all!
Somedays I feel like crazy,
The world seems unhealthy.
My day seems boring,
And I don't know what to think.
I look out of my window,
To find trees and people I didn't know.
Daydreaming seemed to be my best hobby,
Dreaming of what if I was a barbie.
But then reality seem to slowly confront,
As I open my eyes, to find my homework still undone.
I grab my pen and rush over,
When will my studies be done, ohh dear!
15/6/2022
To some extent
My existence is being questioned
For the choices I've made
My dreams are being queried
For watching me sleep and still dream
My conscience is being crucified
For the horrible horrors I've accepted in life
My heart is being broken
For the unhealthy living and uncertainties
My soul seeks refuge
For all it witnessed and fear may consume me
Are we thinking, about money
or do we think, about honey
Are we thinking, about our health
or do we think, about our wealth
Are we thinking, of the needy
or do we think, for the greedy
Are we thinking, for all life
or do we think, just for your own life
Money, has created the wealthy
and many, who are unhealthy
Money, has given us disease
with a bacterium, of too many humans
Money, has created the wars
which has made, many sores
Money, has made many do crime
to relieve stress, by having a dime
Money, is not there for many
to have, a good quality life
Money, has been abusing our granite
which can only, destroy our planet
Money, has taken away equality
with no chance, of becoming equal
Money, has taken away respect
to care and be fare, for all life
Money, is destroying our creatures
by bulldozing, Mother Nature
Money, has given us leaders
who greed, for their own need
Money, has created those who are evil
who use and abuse, just like the devil
Sleepless nights struggled to untangle
Searching dreams of private wrangle.
Which has beaten back unravel partners,
Solve the riddle with investigators.
In angry purple bruised arguments,
She Scrawled, insisted on resentments.
Covering up the truths in how she feels,
she does not like what Truth reveals.
to ruin her influential institutions,
I will lose by making the right decisions.
But unhealthy living is not a moral duty,
But a decision upheld on appeal by penalty,
Forcing the reign of bad, behavior rage
To be drawn into the attention of this age.
I am staring at a healthy yellow banana with a touch of green.
Tempted? Not really. It is firm like I usually like
A pinkish yellow apple with a bit of a stem.
I am pondering. Will it be sour or sweet?
Who put that chocolate milk on my desk?
Maybe me, a few minutes ago. I am sure it was
But a lot happens in my life in a few minutes.
Banana or apple? Apple or banana? I want to be healthier right?
I reach for my chocolate chip cookie to help me with this decision.
"Suck Me! Yeah, that's right, suck me good and hard!"
The above is not a rape or scene from a prison yard.
That's a cigarette berating you as you inhale its toxic waste.
You Are In An Unhealthy Relationship,
but a relationship you can successfully break.
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