When skinny is synonymous with beautiful you create skeletons
With rattling bones and clattering teeth
Skin stretched taunt over portruding bones
Hollowed out cheeks with a mouth that never smiles
For how could it when it's never pretty enough?
When skinny is synonymous with beautiful you create skeletons
With the person inside slowly wasting away
Leaving only the bones to go through the motions of the day
Wondering if this life is still worth living
For how could it be when it will never be good enough?
When skinny is synonymous with beautiful you create skeletons
Most dangerous when they hide away from view
Self destructing without anyone noticing
Hurling themselves towards the chasm of perfection
For how couldn't they when beautiful is synonymous with love?
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It's a scourge.
an important subject matter, widely ignored
unless attached to ideology positioning fallacies..
thank you for sharing, really well written
For shamefully miscast and misjudged arbitrary blemished form of vain the innocent punished by such vulgarity were deeply bruised multiple scarred.
Gio Lizzo go Britt abundant that pleases hearts fair eye
You have seen the effect of undue and unfair societal expectation and thus piece calls those w recognition to rally and reduce the pressure on those innocent. It’s a SHOUT OUT that I hope rings and rings. Really nice. I’m a fan
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