Anorexic



Is it you
WHO has become
 mentally thin
in your thinking
are the bones of your morals
beginning to show
through the stretched
cracking skin
of your empathy
where the fat
of your common sense
can no longer grow
when you refused
to feed
on all the things
that you should know
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Submitted on December 06, 2016

Modified on March 22, 2023

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Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16

William Andrews

I am just a sad old Englishman looking for another home for the words that I love It is seeds I try to sow within the words that I write more…

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