Julie's Pov

The growl of my stomach is louder than the beat of your drums

The same drum beat that you can barely hear

Over your exasperated hums

Yelping in desperation as the cotton balls travel down

The air being nowhere to be found to travel into my lungs

You ask me if I'm hungry

Is it because I'm not round?

Is it because the skin sticks to my elbows like velcro making sounds?

Is it because you have seemingly found thousands of cotton balls in my bookbag?

I become worried

Worried that you think that I'm strange

Worried that you think that I'm some sort of deranged

I clutch my stomach to stop the rumbling

You don't notice the growls this time

Instead, you look at my bones that seem to be all alone

No fat to protect it

You start wondering if I even eat little tidbits

You ask me if I want to go to lunch with you

You insist that you'll pay

I tell you that I ate a big breakfast and that that's why me eating lunch is delayed

Then you start giving me a lecture that you've spent days preparing

If I go will you also pay for all of this regret that I'm wearing?

What made you sense this?

Is it because I'm not round?

Is it because the skin sticks to my body making velcro like sounds?

Is it because the growl of my stomach is louder than the beat of your drums?

A few years later you find me sitting in a restaurant

Air breezing through my lungs

Wheeling through the day eating croissants

The beat of your drums flowing the air

From my stomach all, you hear

Silence

Thankful for the silence

Hoping that the cotton balls won't come near

Happy October everyone! Here is just a little poem that I wrote and I didn't necessarily mean to write about this topic but there I was in English class sitting and reading a poem and I couldn't help but think of one myself. This poem is about anorexia and it's not about me, it's about people who have it. If you haven't noticed this is in Julie's POV hmmm.... I wonder why it'll tie into the story. Enjoy this poem and comment what you think about it. Thanks so much for reading and commenting and voting.