– Oleg Oprisco
This photo challenge was posted at MindLoveMiserysMenagerie to inspire a writing of any genre…this was my attempt.
Leave me alone!
she shouted aloud
but her weak screams
could barely be heard.
it all started last year
when claiming to be
a new born vegan
her excuse not to hear
is that all you’re eating?!
First mother haggled
offering to drive her
to her favourite gym
if just for one meal
it seemed to work,
or so Mom thought
not noticing her
running to the loo
Leave me alone!
she’d shout aloud
but her weak screams
could barely be heard.
Then even at school
became a new problem
friends were no fool
noticing her body shrink
just wasting away
before their own eyes
They would then nag
offer their snack
others would rag
make her feel wacked
staring, eye rolling
she felt they were controlling
meddling in her affairs
giving her evil stares.
Leave me alone!
she shouted aloud
but her weak screams
could barely be heard.
in time there were no friends
only her boyfriend remained
pleading with her
worrying about her
until one day
an ultimatum
he had to say
either get help
or I can’t stay
Leave me alone!
she shouted aloud
but her weak screams
could barely be heard.
she turned to self-harm
to ease her pain
self-injury
her new found friend
she wrapped her wrists
to hide her scars
except when alone
she’d go for long walks
out into the woods
unraveling
long bindings
stretched to forever
she loved these walks
alone and free
just she and nature
it heard her pain
did not have to strain
when she would say
Leave me alone!
in her weak screams
the birds would chirp
the hare would dance
the doe would prance
her new found friends
free at last
she never returned
no longer an outcast
became one with nature
free at last
© Cheryl-Lynn 2016
Stop the Stigma 