body positive
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I had a boy come up to me once
When he heard I’d be singing at our high school’s senior award ceremony.
To ask “what will you be singing? a whale song?”
He turned to his friends and began to laugh
Courage Poem
I am no Superhero! I am Faith Rodriguez and making a difference in this world
I suffer from depression, and I refuse to let fear take hold
When I was browsing
Old photos
On your old laptop that
Can’t play sound
Because you broke the end of
Headphones
Into the jack
Breathe, in and out
Curtains closed, Slowly open
Smile, Bigger, Happier
Don't shake, Don't show your nerves
Move, Grace, and poise
Children watch and Dream
One day it will be them
i think in poems
when i see you
four lines stanzas that all begin in
how beautiful you are…
and how cliché that is
in my metaphors
I've never been enough
I am a living paradox
So complex that I'm not enough
Or I'm too much.
So they'll take me for my body
because they can't keep up with my beautiful brain.
Then, they fade a
I walk along, head held high,
No single man can touch my pride.
I am alone, but my heart is full,
Not a single moment I feel dull.
It was not always like this,
I used to hate myself and diss
I think I began as a coloring book. Filled with colorless outlines of rudimentary pictures of puppies and flowers, even a dragon adorns two full pages. Rad, right?
shove a mirror down my throat so I can focus on what's really important. I promise I won't choke. my esophagus has been conditioned with two digits.
Working for money is hard and stressful.The toilet brush always drips, mildew grows like weeds.Try as you might your efforts are unsuccessful. The beetles still leak from the cracks, desperate for the crumbs that feed.
I have freckled cheeks and chapped lips.
I have never known what to do with my hair,
and I'm sure I sweat my makeup off before lunch everyday.
I am not pretty.
Because pretty is a flower,
We are judged based on what we do
but not by the actions, no
by the number of times it happens.
You are more than this.Than glamour magazines.Than women on the runway.Than girls at the makeup counter.
Those poor girls, this poor me
trying to navigate womanhood
not knowing which way to look,
If I could change anything
about the world.
It would be how we see the shapes of human bodies
and how they are percieved to be ugly
or undesireable.
We tear down those who are too skinny
Growing. That's a scary thing to do.
We don't realize that every day we change, little nuances in the way we move or speak.
The way we cross the street.
ha ha ha
look at her fat!
fatty fatty 2X4 couldnt fit through the kitchen door!
ha ha ha
you pick on me because im twice your size
you pick on me because i dont care what you think
