I tried something new this time. I think in the future I might turn this into the preface of a short story, but for now it is just a poem I guess..




“Oh wow, look at you! You’ve gotten so big!”
“All grown up, you aren’t a little girl anymore!”
“My, you’ve grown so much! I barely recognize you!”
The words waft from crooked-tooth smiles, along with the stench of over fried eggs and chocolate cake.

I used to be the little girl they talk about. That would sit on daddy’s lap, and would fit in mommy’s embrace.

But I’m no longer the gawky girl of skin and bones. The years have fattened me up, the sneaked cookies have stopped their journey right at my thighs. And I carry a heavy heart.

I carry the weight of school, love, ad the drama of the teenage years, along with every single calorie to enter my mouth.

No more pirouetting down the halls on matchstick limbs, log-like legs cannot lift me. No more counting ribs, now just skin and layers of yellow, slimy, ugly, fat.

Because that’s all I am. The little girl who has grown, and gotten so terribly big, she is beyond recognition.