Looking in the mirror
Makes all those flaws look clearer
Looking at the bulge,
that pokes out of your stomach
The shirt that just won't fit
You see crookedness in your nose
It's sad how you could
look in the mirror
and hate what you see
A girl, at only sixteen
Stares back at me
She's tried everything
since the age of thirteen
Taking scissors to the stomach
to cut off the fat,
chains pull her down,
won't give her any slack
At 3 a.m.
She cries herself to sleep
She hates herself so much
she won't even eat
To be thinner
like those girls on t.v.
Her room reflects her emotions
posters of depression and anxiety
Starvation and clarity
Purging after a meal
throwing up was her deal,
Nobody knew what she did
So in the darkness she hid
She would cry every night
into her pillow
her reflection mocked her
And one day it would kill her
Staring at herself,
She grabbed her anchor
and pulled the trigger
