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What utter destruction of health is housed by fashion! Please save our dying women!
Beautiful, young, lovely soul, yes, YOU who vomit to be thin: I beg you, seek help! Tell a friend, your mother, a teacher, ANYONE, of your ordeal and GET HELP before anorexia or bulimia kills you. Or: speak to me. I love you. I want you to please love you too, and become healed! You are strong. Put the same dedication into getting healed than you put into dying.
Inspired by Fashion -- IronIcecream
http://allpoetry.com/poem/5796065
The photo of me is taken during Margaret Gibson's (MargaretG's) visit to SA in April 2009. I have lost a few kilograms since then, but not deliberately to lose weight -- had some health problems recently. I have no problem with being heavier than before; should I lose weight, it will be because of health reasons.
Of course there are those who are naturally skinny. This poem is not about them.
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Thank you for sharing your poem. Hopefully, you can reach out with your message
and teach people that each individual is unique. Sadly, each Christmas the songs
of Karen Carpenter returns...her voice still echoes. A life cut way too short
as she too fell a victim from this true disease.
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Ah Elle!
Karen Carpenter had all the help she could get and she simply did not want to make the right choice. BUT! I know that God wanted me to write this poem for THOSE that truly needed this. I wish I could comfort all who suffer such! It is a cry of my very soul. My plea is that all who can read, and think, MUST know that the thought patterns get distorted by this illness -- that sufferers see themselves as fat, when they are already to frail to breathe ... I pray with all of me that God touches those who needs healing miraculously.
Thank you so much for reading and commenting.
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...we first had a picture frame
You are so lovely in the swing of things.;(
The images of 'trimness' have carved the culture since the early centuries starting with the Sears Catalogue models of 1892. The health measures were to drink vinegar cocktails after eating anything with high calories. Then the "Twiggy" generation set up an unapproachable goal to others.
The answer is as individual as the DNA: counsel , excercise, water, food moderation, and a great attitude!
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Ah! You are divinely wise!
Life is not easy at all but: it is a joy too, and I will not miss out!
The pain suffered by eating disorders is immense. I truly respect the mere fact that those sufferers can still carry on with everyday life. I love them so! Wish I could mother all of them, but: I think they need not smothering ... They NEED to find in themselves their own cure, and for me that is to discover how unique and special God has made each and everyone of us, even with our burdens and self-inflicted agonies!
The eating disorder sufferers I personally know of are brilliant, beautiful and truly gifted. I pray that God Himself will set them free ...
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I think the problem here is a famine of SELF. To be so wrapped up in what another"s perception of what is just the 'flesh house' we live in...
I have much compassion for some one driven so mercilessly to destructive behavior. -
I believe it is much more then body image, it goes much deeper,
but I do agree we send an illusion an image of what we should look like out into the world and they buy it and want it, such a painful disease.
this is written with compassion and sincerity
I am too skinny
I am so fine with that though I do get tired of hearing it, we are a strange breed.
A pleasure to read my friend
God bless you...
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Yes, it goes much deeper ... but often peer group pressure is the culprit too. Maturity in spirit is the answer to many addictions.
I also know that people are easy to judge. One day a good friend of mine told me: Myra, if you lose any more weight, you will look really ghastly! Now they say if I GAIN anymore weight I will look terrible!
For some reason or another I have very honest friends, who do not flatter me. I appreciate that of them. But, I am happy as long as I am healthy.
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This is expertly done Myra!
And I have to say, you are beautiful
Well done on this brilliant write!
Best wishes
Sonya
PS. I love shape poetry
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Thank you for the compliment and for loving shape poetry. I too love writing these.
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Although I find the shape too gimmicky for my taste, the words of your poem are chillingly effective and all too true. It's heart-wrenching to see the damage that fashion and perceived expectations do to vulnerable young women (and sometimes men).
An exceptional poem, Myra.
Warmest wishes,
Bill
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Thank you, Bill! Yes, men too are starting to become bulimic.
Please note that I am NOT talking about slightly built people. I myself used to be so thin, that people stopped me in street asking me if I am ill! But that was because I was running around nonstop, working, with five children to take care of.
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so what good is art for - it is not fashion
sure the ancient knew what are they doing when they said
man is the measure of all things in the universe
all you have to wonder is how this creed got twisted from
know theyself into you must be perfect...
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I love fashion as you will see on the photo I added. I have my own style. I wear what I feel enhances my own frame. It is sad that children who have a genetic bone structure must force themselves to be slight and underfed. The irony is: many suffer all over the world of starvation.
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i think i was clear enough
and so is this starvation - regrdless if it happens from lack of food or identity
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True!
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