I know girls who are trying to fit into the social
norm,
Like squeezing into last year's prom dress
I know girls who are low rise, mac eyeshadow, and binge
drinking
I know girls that wonder if they're disaster and sexy enough
to fit in
I know girls who are fleeing bombs from the mosques of their
skin
Playing russian roulette with death; it's never easy to
accept
That our bodies are fallible and flawed
But when do we draw the line?
When the knife hits the skin?
Isn't it the same thing as purging,
Because we're so obsessed with death,
Some women just have more guts than others
The funny thing is women like us don't shoot
We swallow pills, still wanting to be beautiful at the
morgue,
Still proceeding to put on make-up,
Still hoping that the mortician finds us f/ckable and
attractive
We might as well be buried with our shoes,
and handbags and scarves, girls
We flirt with death everytime we etch a new tally mark into
our skin
I know how to split my wrists like a battlefield
too
But the time has come for us to reclaim our
bodies
Our bodies deserve more than to be war-torn and
collateral,
Offering this f/ckdom as a pathetic means to say,
"I only know how to exist when i am
wanted"
Girls like us are hardly ever wanted you know
We're used up and sad and drunk and
perpetually waiting by the phone for someone to pick
up
and tell us that we did good
You did good.
I know I am because I said I am
I know I am because I said I am
I know I am because I said I am,
My body is home
My body is home
I know I am because I said I am
I know I am because I said I am
I know I am because I said I am
Try this
Take your hands over your bumpy lovebody naked
And remember the first time you touched someone
With the sole purpose of learning all of them
Touched them because the light was pretty on them
And the dust in the sunlight danced the way your heart
did
Touch yourself with a purpose
Your body is the most beautiful royal,
fathers and uncles are not claiming your knife
anymore,
are not your razor, no
Put the sharpness back
Lay your hands flat and feel the surface of scarred
skin
I once touched a tree with charred limbs
the stump was still breathing
But the tops were just ashy remains,
I wonder what it's like to come back from
that
Sometimes I feel a forest fire erupting from my
wrists
And the smoke signals sent out are the most beautiful
things
I've ever seen
Love your body the way your mother loved your baby
feet
And brother, arm wrapping shoulders, and remember,
This is important:
You are worth more than who you f/ck
You are worth more than a waistline
You are worth more than beer bottles displayed like druken
artifacts
You are worth more than any naked body could
proclaim
In the shadows, more than a man's whim
or your father's mistake
You are no less valuable as a size 16, than a size
4
You are no less valuable as a 32A than a 36C,
Your sexiness is defined by concentric circles within your
wood;
It is wisdom
You are a godd/mn tree stump with leaves sprouting
out:
reborn
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Raeleen (: * · 9 years ago
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Thank you but this is not my poem/writing. Its actually a song by mary lambert its called body love. <3 thank you though