Learning to love your body

feel bad wanting to be skin and bones

When there are girls who beg to be bigger

When all I want is to be thinner

Those girls look in the mirror and are disgusted

While I think they're beautiful

So tiny

So small

That makes me awful

They are sick to their stomachs when food is given

While it feels like home to me

I wish I was tiny

Those words slip out of me

In front of mirror

A girl who skin and bone

Told me I was perfect

Her eyes glossy and her legs shaky

I told her she was too

We are to different sides of the same coin

Begging to be like the other

But she wasn't telling me my body was perfect

She was saying I had a heart of gold

I didn't want a lesson to love myself

I wanted one to love my body