A/N: This is up for revision, I just needed to get it out - it was bothering me...so feel free to make suggestions. Read on.

Starving For Perfection

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Starving for perfection;

She’s dying to be thin.

Nothing’s ever good enough;

She’s clawing at her skin.

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Outside she must be beautiful,

For within she is unsound.

The obsession only strengthens

With the loss of every pound.

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Always more to waste away;

She wants to disappear.

She lies to cover her condition,

The smile’s a veneer.

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In hunger there is strength

And in pain there is perfection.

Her beauty lies in toilet bowls;

Her control within rejection.

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She retches up her failure;

She regurgitates her soul.

The desperate voices in her head

Begin to take their toll.

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There’s a knock at the bathroom door.

Post-vomit shudders wrack her spine.

“Are you alright?”

Yeah…I’m fine.

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