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Mirror, mirror

on my wall

The reflection that you show me

Grotesque and inhuman, not beautiful at all.

Choking me, you're starving me.

You bruise my skin,

You break my heart and pluck its strings

Willpower keeps me pure, food is a sin

All across your surface

I only read one word

Printed across like pen in ink

It cuts into me just like a sword

Skinny, skinny

All across

Thin like a feather,

Flying through the air, an albatross

So light I walk atop the snow

So fragile not a single footprint in my wake

The hungry clouds my head

Every step I take my bones, they ache.

The fat girl in this mirror

She knows nothing of my plight

Yet still she lays down on the floor

Bawling there in a room with no light.

She cries and cries,

Her skin bruised blue and black

Spine aching on the hardwood floor

She cuts herself no slack.

Hard work for nothing

She's all alone, no one sees no one cares

She won't change, no one worries

Buying new jeans, half a dozen pairs.

Elation from starvation,

All she feels anymore,

Exhaustion always setting in at night

Picking up on its bedtime war

Mirror, oh mirror,

On the wall,

She could never be

The fairest of them all.

But mirror, have mercy

She's on her knees for you

Begging til her tongue runs dry

Asking you what could she do?

Mirror, she's a slave to you

You run her life, you ruin it

Her health is gone,

Give everything just for it

For a newer, more beautiful reflection.

Mirror, mirror

Don't you see?

That what you show destroyed her

Just the same as it destroys me.