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 Nov 2013 Erin-Taylor
Jay
Only one plate? said mother
Is that all you're going to eat?
You said,
I've got to save some room for the treats.
That's a tiny piece of cake. said mother,
Are you sure you don't want another
You said,
Well, we have to save room for the others.
Are you sick? said mother
As she opened the bath room door
She saw you shove your finger down your throat
Then you threw up all over the floor.
I'm so sorry, said mother.
Your sad because it isn't her fault
She encouraged full figures
But a stomach is something you didn't want.
I knew you were getting so small, said mother.
I should've said something
And you began to cry
Because what she could've said would've meant nothing.
Mother called father not knowing what do do,
Instead of helping, father came screaming into your room,
You're going to start eating young lady! Father shouts
If you don't then we will have a problem,
Then he slammed the door on his way out.
You wonder what you should do as you sit upon your bed,
Should you allow daddy to hurt you?
Or get fat instead?
Maybe, just maybe, you think
You'd be better off dead..
 Nov 2013 Erin-Taylor
Nothing
So easily shattered
Shards pricking picky fingers
Trying to put pieces back together
Impossible.
Leaving blood drops
Drips
Ruining pristine white.
 Nov 2013 Erin-Taylor
Calli Kirra
Ill
They say you must suffer insanity
And your demons
They must be dark
To become a writer
And I, well,
I'm absolutely mad
Mad for you
Society fears
Us looking in mirrors
And liking what we see
Posting 'selfies' online
Is a narcissistic crime
Because we're not allowed to be
Proud of how we look
'Cause in society's book
Insecurity plus jealousy equals pay
And when we cry
We're likely to buy
And the world wants us that way
 Nov 2013 Erin-Taylor
MS
All my favorite stories growing up
began with "Once Upon a Time."
There was a girl,
she met a boy,
it was love at first sight,
and it would end in "Happily Ever After"
That kind of stuff never happens to me,
so I wrote my own fairytale...

Once Upon A Time
there was a girl.
She met a boy
and they became bestfriends.
She fell in love with him
while he fell in love with some other girl.
The girl cried herself to sleep every night
and pretended it didn't hurt,
but it did.

It's not that much different from the ones I read growing up,
Except,
*It doesn't end in Happily Ever After
 Nov 2013 Erin-Taylor
Sydney Rain
I like feeling this way
I like having a break from the sadness
It's just a good day
I have no complaints
Though I'm still confused
I'm happy right now
The smile is real
Why does my chest still feel tight
I cant take another day as a crumpled puppet on the floor
aching heart breaking
I can't take one second more
I am a pile of bones to gnaw on
a stump for disgusting fungus to grow on  
anger agony self pity its all a part of the misery that is feasting
I'm failing, my pathetic attempt at faking is wavering
there is no mistaking my weakness and day after day i come home to collapse like a husk
crying a fresh puddle upon dampened carpet
I know I can't take this anymore
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