Analysis of Enough
1 am starving
Not just my body,
But my mind,
My soul,
My energy.
Living day to day
Can be the hardest task
I have to overcome.
It is simply exhausting.
My thoughts run
Faster than any Olympic runner.
Thinking about all the ways that I am not good enough.
"Don't eat that"
"You're not hungry"
"Check the calories"
"This is what you've always wanted"
"You aren't pretty enough"
Daily thoughts play on repeat
Like my favorite song in the car.
"Keep going"
"You aren't skinny enough"
"You already ate once today"
"Cut the calories"
"Check the scale"
I caved.
The thoughts won.
I'll start slowly though,
Don't worry.
1,500 calories is
The lowest recommended amount.
"You're not losing weight fast enough"
I caved again.
1,000 calories.
"Nice, you've lost 13 lbs. in 14 days. If you cut More, you'll lose weight faster"
800 calories.
"You've hit a plateau"
"Cut more, you need to keep losing weight"
500 calories.
"Just a little more, you can do it"
"If you keep going, you'll look like one of those models in a magazine" Once again, I caved.
Maybe I can just eat every other day?
People say,
You look sick.
But I ask,
Am I pretty yet?
People say,
I don't recognize you!
But I say, I don't recognize myself.
I'm tired.
I'm exhausted.
When will enough be enough?
Am I pretty yet?
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Metre | 110 11110 111 11 1100 10111 110101 11110 1110010 111 1011001010 10011011111101 111 1110 10100 1111110 1101001 1011101 111001001 110 1101001 10101101 10100 101 11 011 11101 110 1001 01001001 11101101 1101 100 111101111111110 100 11001 111111101 100 101011111 1111011111110001010111 101111100101 101 111 111 11101 101 11101 11111101 110 1010 1101101 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,272 |
Words | 263 |
Sentences | 26 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 52 |
Lines Amount | 52 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 952 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 231 |
About this poem
This poem is about living with an eating disorder, anorexia. It describes my experience with it.
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