you're trying not to think about the ingredients, about your teeth, about your throat, about the way you know it'll hurt, yet you know it's all you can think about, because you poke those fingers in, you scrape around your throat, you take the skin off (a few grams lost already), you know that's all you'll ever lose, because you're trying not to think about what comes next, but you already know, you gag, you automatically stifle it, you cough, and all you bring up are the tears; you stare down at the empty plughole but you can barely see past your stomach, you go to plan b, squeeze a bit out, turn up that shower so they dont hear, sing a litt
It's the taste of failure, of whispers no-one else can hear, of an empty packet rustling; of fingers scraping out your throat like it's a bowl of chocolate sauce; of crying and eating yet more salt, it's looking at your hands with no control, it's giving up, wanting something so much and yet being too pathetic, it's the way you sit in that shower for hours just wanting it out, and the way you gag, cough and stop yourself, every time; it's staring at thinspo, crying and stuffing your face; it's helpless, it's useless, it's everything about you that deserves to die but never will.
You tell yourself you're fighting it off, that you're being str
you're trying not to think about the ingredients, about your teeth, about your throat, about the way you know it'll hurt, yet you know it's all you can think about, because you poke those fingers in, you scrape around your throat, you take the skin off (a few grams lost already), you know that's all you'll ever lose, because you're trying not to think about what comes next, but you already know, you gag, you automatically stifle it, you cough, and all you bring up are the tears; you stare down at the empty plughole but you can barely see past your stomach, you go to plan b, squeeze a bit out, turn up that shower so they dont hear, sing a litt
It's the taste of failure, of whispers no-one else can hear, of an empty packet rustling; of fingers scraping out your throat like it's a bowl of chocolate sauce; of crying and eating yet more salt, it's looking at your hands with no control, it's giving up, wanting something so much and yet being too pathetic, it's the way you sit in that shower for hours just wanting it out, and the way you gag, cough and stop yourself, every time; it's staring at thinspo, crying and stuffing your face; it's helpless, it's useless, it's everything about you that deserves to die but never will.
You tell yourself you're fighting it off, that you're being str
Dear, I have been searching for a person like you.
I have scoured the seas and searched the land. I have turned up all the soil in my garden and uprooted lilies and thyme and foxglove. I have ran my fingers through the earth and sifted the soil. I found you, finally, lying among the roses sleeping like a fairy.
My hand bleed and fingernails ripped back as I made my way through thorns and branches, to find you; youyouyou.
I've been sleeping in dreams of you.
And I forgot to wake up, wake up
because I was afraid there was no one like you.
But I pried open lead laced eyelids and found a sweet dream.
My,dear.You've been living in a nigh
Don't let her take you.
She walks in nightshade, a bella donna, she's rare and precious, so she says. Why do you listen to her, ephemeral, broken, ruined? No one loves her, can't you see? If someone loved her, why would she need you to do the same?
And she makes sure, doesn't she, that no one else will take you away. Because when she's your constant companion, there's no room for anyone else.
They all leave you anyway, she says, they'll all leave push them. Don't make them stay, don't make them pretend to like you any more. You're fat, you're worthless, you're nothing but a blob in too-tight jeans. Yet everyone tells you that
I love the way I can make my stomach heave.
I love the way I can stop myself from eating.
I love the way I can make mysef bleed.
I love the way I can see my bones after a while.
I love the way I no longer recognize hunger.
I love the way I have scars on my skin.
I love the way my clothes become loose.
I love the way my face begins to thin.
I love the way my skin tears away from the blade.
I love the way I can control it.
I love the way no one notices.
I love the way the evidence is never even suspected.
But I hate who I've become.
i need to write. lately ive been tempted to merge this with my real account, but i don't think i'm ready for that just yet. i can't even imagine facing my friends if they knew all this. I keep thinking im in recovery, but the mindset just never goes away.
but then, was thinking back to a year or so again, when things were really bad, and I can stay positive, knowing how far i've come, knowing that people do recover, that i got past that, and that everything passes.