I wrote this about a friend who was clearly falling at a time she should have been celebrating. It is from a few years ago, but I thought it expressed the eating disorder's effects from another side.
Your eyes had no color; only emotion shining through the blank spaces. They were mere pools of pain, wells of sadness, oceans of anxiety. Fear and worry twisted my stomach as I looked at you. Was it even you? Someone new stared out at me through a face set, painted, and fixed to mask the true you. What took you away? Why, at the happiest time of life, are you so reserved, so gone?
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