My body, my friend

“I stared in the mirror

Disgust on my face

Thinking I really don’t deserve

To take up so much space.

I swore to myself

I’ll change the way I look

Even if I have to sacrifice my health.

The number on the scale

Started to drop, drop, drop

And it’s not long before I realized,

I simply couldn’t stop.

The sensation I would feel

When the numbers went down

Made me want to skip meal after meal.

But slowly I would see

The fear my family had for me.

I was tearing us apart

With my barely beating heart.

The girl who once was thriving

Was now merely surviving.

As more time passed, I was losing all hope.

Without anorexia, I had no way to cope.

But deep down I knew

The voices in my head

Were so far from true.

Those voices convinced me I was ugly, I was fat…

Body, I’m so sorry I believed that.

Because now I realize, much better than before,

My body is my friend.

And slowly, I am starting to love her more.”

@_strongerthaned