You can't be a racist,
We're different shades of brown.
You can't be sexist,
Women can do it as well.
You can't gay bash,
Because love is not a choice.
You can't hate for religion,
Because God judges in the end.
But what about the people
Who walk the Earth as round?
The ones who have a few extra pounds.
No matter their gender, race, religion,
No matter their love or lack there of,
The heavy ones are everything
And they are everywhere,
But it's ok, bash away,
Fat doesn't have any feeling.
It's not a hate crime
If you hurt the overweight,
You aren't a hero
If you save them from others.
You won't be lectured
Or taught right from wrong
If you turn your sights on the perfectly round.
Because you see, it's plain as day,
The heavy people don't count.
They don't suffer from your words,
Or from the things you do.
They don't get anorexia
When their life is surrounded
By the few people there are
With airbrushed faces.
They don't deserve to walk the Earth,
They all over eat,
They refuse to work out,
And no, of course not,
There is no disease!
Thyroid problems and diabetes
Don't help make you fat,
It's all because you eat like a pig.
So tell them they will go to hell
Because their gluttony is a sin.
But when things turn around
And you feel life's cruelty...
Don't expect the heavy majority
To give you the time of day.
Author notes
This poem IS NOT bashing overweight people. It has been mistaken as doing so in the past. But please read it to the end before flamming me. I am overweight myself, this poem is based on my own experiences and feelings growing up and living as an overweight person. I've always been heavy, always will be. And it seems to me that it is the one last prejudice that is still ok. Overweight people are people, too, and we have feelings. There is more to it than being lazy and eating too much.
Written October 27th, 2003
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Great job!! So right on track. If only people even cared enough to listen. True Beauty is on the inside... it is too bad that some never grow enough to learn this simple fact. I, myself, never had a weight problem and it has always bothered me how the "barbie dolls" of the world would look down their long and slender noses deciding someone else was not worthy of friendship because of their size. I'm the one who always took up for the little guy and sometimes got judged myself, as being weird, for doing so. You have great points about how they CAN"T help it. Not always, any way. Excellant poem. -
Firstly, thanks very very much for your lovely comment on Swastika Rising, meant alot
As for this write, it's amazing- the words in themselves are very simple, but the message simply speaks volumes that need to be expressed. I can relate to this as yes, I have always been overweight, mostly due to my build and height, and also how depression affects my body. Most people lose weight from it- I gain it. Anywho. I agree, people very often just don't think about the feelings of us- oh it's all brought on ourselves, it's all our own choice to be... meh. Just because people aren't stick thin size 4 models doesnt mean they're not real or don't have personalities- quite the contrary often. People can be just as, if not more beautiful from having some meat on their bones. As far as I'm concerned it's about posture, happiness and confidence. Many larger people just ouze confidence and that is so beautiful to see. Anywho, I'm rambling. Amazing write.
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Oh wow this was good. I know what its like to be overweight. i was all through gradeschool and will never forget it. I still have major self esteem issues because of it. Before I entered junior high igrew up and became tall and skinny and all of a sudden people wanted to be around me all the time. I was in complete shock and milked it all I could, now i understand if i would have still been heavy they wouldnt have given me the time of day and its hard to think that how u look influences so much. I still am hurt by wordspeople said. It is something i do not nor will ever forget. your poem did a great job of describign the frustration with the ignorance of todays society. My poem Wanting Perfection talks about the same issue and my struggle with it. nice write
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I think you really nailed this subject. It is true in our society it is still okay to make fun of fat people. Which of course it isn't but you know what i mean. We have all these rules for hate crimes and the hurt that a fat person feels is just dismissed as trivial. Excellent poem.
Take care of yourself.
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This was good...it started off really well...then through the rest I kept an open mind...I wasn't quite sure if you were seriously making fun of overweight people or not...but for some reason I could just read the sarcasm in it...so I began feeling that you were doing just the opposite...not being cruel at all...and that was confirmed at the end...great job on this, an interesting way to express your views.
NICELY DONE!
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Good perspective you've given here. Some people just dont have the motivation to be thin, It's weird how larger than average people want to be smaller, but dont want to put the effort into it. I dont have the motivation to excercise, but i have the motivation to play heaps of sport, so that helps me out a bit. Food is so good, and you just wanna have more. At least one of the easiest mental issues to fulfill, hunger. whereas others have large issues to overcome.
Great write.
keep groovin.
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