
Posted in response to the challenge PAST CONTESTS: Autumn '24: Visual Art. See Award Winners and All Submissions.
Posted in response to the challenge PAST CONTESTS: Autumn '24: Visual Art. See Award Winners and All Submissions.
Can you remember
Who you were
Before the world told you
Who you should be?
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i was too much
for you
someday
I’ll be enough
For someone
This is for everyone
Who has criticized
The body
Of a child
Today
An eleven-year-old girl
Is sitting in a hospital bed
Because she can’t eat a meal
Without feeling guilty
“Why didn’t you ask for help?”
When I didn’t write for weeks
I was asking for help
When I stopped smiling
When I stopped laughing
When happiness became fake
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