Mirror breaks and crashes to the reflection of her
In front of her eyes, with a loud crackling sound
Everything turns loud for her
These flashy lights, shiny noise and brazen words
"I don’t want no mirror anymore", she says.
"It has shrunk my reflection in my own eyes
Day after day, moment after moment
And every negative thought the world has feed in"
"What is wrong with me?" she asks
When a young teenage girl stops eating,
It is concerning.
After years of mockery for being a body type
Not flattering to men,
She decided to shrink herself to a size of a tear drop
Dropping its way to the earth and burying itself
Inside the layers of soil where people cannot see past her skinny face
Every mirror cracks to the high frequency voice inaudible to humans
Of a teenager everyday shrinking her body and mind to fit
Herself in front of male gaze
“I am no one if boys don’t like me” she says
“Without a man, you are just not complete”, the society tells her
Because, every thought she has, puts her in competition
With her lovely female friends
Because when a teenager stops eating, it is concerning
When a kid stops growing past the views of the society
And inhibits the span of its dreams, it is concerning
What is wrong with me she asks?
Because people barely looked past her body type
and the buried skinny face
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