Please, Don't Lie

Cacoethis Scribendi
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Input: Free form poem


Trigger Warning: The post ahead contains and mentions self-harming actions and suicide.


You saw it in my phone
         pictures of girls just bones
         videos of damaged people
         words whispering death.


You saw me in the mirror
        mocking the person I've become
        of curves placed on the wrong places
        never looking at the reflection casted.


You saw it in my plate
        the rice slowly diminishing
        the meat gloriously untouched
        bread being hidden on the seat.

You saw it in my room
        a stash of dusty razors
        laxatives on the trash bin
        cigarette butts on the shoe rack.


You saw it in my body
        the gap on my thigh widening
        the wrists and long sleeves
        dark circles sitting on my eyes.


You saw me in school
        grades from A-pluses to fails
        attendance perfectly empty
        urgent calls from the teachers.


You saw it in my eyes
        the hatred I feel for my own
        the fear of a young child
        in an unknown cruel world.


You knew I was suffe

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