Bumps and bruises, <br />red marks, <br />ribs sprinkled with contusions, <br />skin stretched too tight, <br />tendons straining, <br />there is no more fight, <br />knobbly knees, <br />we watch you fall, <br />and beg you please, <br />hollow and sunken cheek, <br />narrow waisted, <br />why won't you eat? <br />stressed and starving, <br />inside I'm screaming, <br />you forget all about me <br />in this quest for skinny<br /><br />Jess Terry<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/skin-ny/
