Eat Please eat Let your body live I know your mind is messy I know the scale is hurting you          Just ...

Warning: Poem may be triggering Silent Scream She’s convinced herself she can’t be loved So she starves herself away ...

Warning: Poem may be triggering Bad Apple   This poem is not about how I beat anorexia. I wish I could write that poem...

Relapse I drove you away. You’ve returned to define my body, my soul; anywhere I go you follow, burrowed deep within...

In case nobody’s told you, and in case you haven’t heard. I’m trapped inside this limbo, teetering on the verge. In cas...

I lie. I lie about what I’m doing, where I’m going, and what I just ate. I steal. I steal food when I can’t starve...

warning: Poem may be triggering PROGRESS Brain dying Skin freezing Lips lying Heart seizing Hair falling Body achin...

This is my declaration of independence ... from the voice that never lets me rest or says what I do or who I am is n...

*warning: poem may be triggering Girl Standing in Front of the Mirror Collarbones jutted out, Every rib defined against the starving f...

Done I don't want you in my life I don't want you in my head You play sick mind tricks on me While I lay ...

Spotlight You thought you’d done it, And pushed me off stage, You thought you’d beaten me, And locked this cage. I know you’ve been...

  *Warning: Poem may be triggering Pray For Me this isn't one of those poems about recovery this isn't one of those poems abou...

I Lie Still, Listening I woke and in the barely-there light of the new day I felt it a faint tug a softly whispered promise and taken...

Would you like to feature your eating disorder and/or body image poetry or writings on Weighing The Facts?  Writing is a very powerful too...

Child Of God Whats wrong with this child that wanders alone So lost in the dark and frightened Who scared this beautiful child of God And ...

I am not my heavy thighs nor the roundness of my face I am not the slender length of my fingers nor the graceful curve of my neck I ...

Dearest Body, O boy have we been through a lot; That today you deserve to be put on the spot. Like a machine you relentlessly work and you w...

I brush my teeth head dipped staring at the toothpaste trail so that I cannot see you I fill my head with humming a mental tally of chores ...

Purge Pain devours my judgment. Unsatisfied it consumes my spirit. My heart lay torn All the threads of time Will never make me whole again....

Trapped My body is trapped in this mind I try to break free, with fragile arms No match for the burden of This madness, sadness That is heav...