In Northwestern BrazilColumbia and PeruIs the Amazon rainforestI kid you not, it's trueMillions of kilometresOf trees that reach the skiesCountless rivers running through itYou won't believe your eyesIt's the largest tropical rainforestBigger than all the restHome to twenty percent of the world's bird speciesThe place is truly blessedYou must be super carefulWhere inside you wanderOr you'll find yourself coming face to fa...

You say you love me You said you would be there For the first year you were The day you came home drunk I asked if you were okay You gave me your answer With a fist to my face I waited till you passed out For I dare not move I looked in the mirror As the tears rolled down my face I focused hard through tear filled eyes And saw one hell of a black and blue eye Waking in morning light You looked at me And said you were sorr...

Suffused with life. HappinessJoyLovingLivingThen you came along.You chose her,Were Inclined towards her. I was warned about you. Preordained fortuity perhaps?Your insidious shadow approached unnoticed. Your darkness surprised me. I didn't contemplate meeting you at all.Happenstance brought mixed emotions. I held onto my loving friends, Faith and Hope.The moment she felt your presencemy heart skipped a beat. The unknown, G...

They say that people fall in loveI beg to disagreeIt’s really more a catapult:You’re launched, then flying free Swirling, twirling through the airThe world around you spinsLike nothing you have ever seenAt heights you’ve never been You catch your breathSuch beauty!Surrounds you and withinYour happiness just radiatesYou feel your life begin Whether you are young or oldThe newness is so crispEverything is wonderfulEverythin...

You chased it awayBut it's back You smothered its breathIt just laughed You brought it to sea in a boatBut tossed overboard, saw it float You burned it alive but it roseYou buried it deep but it grows You prayed for reliefNo avail You reasoned and pledKeened and wailed What is this thing that won't leave?Why can you get no relief? The reason there's no place to hide?You can't run from what is inside The only thing left yo...

i'm fine you want me to let her go? she's my friend my only friend she's helping me be skinny skinny beautiful fat ugly * help me she won't let go help me i'm stuck help me she's killing me * no i'm fine i'm okay i'm winning no longer a failure * (("so just be a good girl and please follow my rules don't forget i'm taking over transparent is what you'll be in no time...")) * she doesn't let go she won't let go I was her f...

"Mirror mirror on my wall, ruthless to your victim... skinny, all these voices singing, skinny, all my monsters singing..." -Skinny by Edith Backlund. hunger pains and baggy jeans hiding me from people who would see this ugly me. ana, why are you  doing this to me? too skinny to fit anything too fat to start eating too stupid to see  that ana is the one doing  this to me. "Mirror mirror on the wall, ruthless to your victi...

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Some nights, are calm. No shouting, No screaming,No pain.Most nights, though, are just like tonight.Painful. Loud. Twisted memories, Horror-film dreams.Mother at work, Father drunk, Fists flying, Words stinging.A child's history being made.Why? Why Daddy? Why do you do this to me? Why?

An empty seat, The back of the class... You're skin and bones, But I say nothing, you'll yell and scream, and in the end... it's no good. It seems to me nothing's being done, But, really, it's none of my business, I'm just a friend, a concerned friend, there's no point for me to worry, to get involved, is there? Yeah. (Right.) 

Walk in, slowly- painfully slowly, so it takes as long to get back to that seat as possible. Breathe in, breathe out, unnoticed breathing, but calming breathing. Swallow those feelings, you had to be strong, strong and patient. Willing to be that, and to shove some of your feelings aside, so you could be that way. Sit down, finally sit down next to her, look at the teacher as the bell rings, as her how she is. Speak a lit...

Close your eyes, open your mouth... Gossip spreads,  The rumors whirl around their heads, They laugh at her, Pay more attention than she'd prefer, To the things that everyone said. She was skinny as could be, So skinny that you could see, Every single bone, The concave of her belly shown, But all anyone thought about was "me".

Doesn't come to school, stays home sick. I'm there, sitting in the seat, next to the one she would usually be in. Don't think about it I tell myself, but how do you not think and wonder and worry about a friend who is getting herself too deep into a deadly situation? She is quite literally skin and bones and the best I can do is offer a stupid piece of pizza. What the hell kind of good is that doing? Plus, while doing tha...

She comes to school, Sits next to me, I've seen the pictures...  I know what's under those layers, You can see every single little bone. She thinks that because she's not losing in her problem areas, it makes sense- Sense to do what? To starve yourself? To kill yourself? This is going to kill you, and you don't seem to care. Any normal parents would do something, and I guess they are doing a bit- buying food when she gets...

1 Even in this bright and silent sunlight giving me another day to breath and see another dawn, another noon and night, another chance to wonder what will be and question all that comes into my mind and ponder what I’m doing here today, looking at the sky as if up there I’ll find some meaning, some answer, something I can say with any certainty what lies around the bend. And then I think of you so far away wondering too w...