Content warning: eating disorder thoughts and behaviours.
Later. I'll eat later.
A promise to myself
I hope I won't keep,
Knowing once I start to eat
I won't be able to stop.
Earlier. I ate earlier.
I say, stomach growling,
As I leave for my
Lunch of black coffee with
A side of cigarettes.
Never again. Never again
I vow, enveloped in
Shame, stomach swollen
And painful, disappointed
And full of self-hate.
Today, I won't eat,
I promise myself.
This time I'll succeed.
If I don't eat, I won't have to
Worry about stopping.
#worldpoetryday
