Deafening Silence

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