by Karri Pierce

Created on: February 09, 2010

She took a fitness test today

She turned out five pounds overweight

She did not eat her lunch today

In fear of more weight she might gain.

She tells herself she will not get thicker

Her parents notice she starts skipping dinner

She looks in the mirror and feels so much bigger

She is dying, to be thinner.

The day soon comes to be graduated

From high school, she is congratulated

Her figure is now emaciated

She hides it and keeps herself isolated.

She punishes herself when she gets thicker

Her parents wonder why she is skipping dinner

She looks in the mirror and feels so much bigger

She is dying, to be thinner.

Her parents are afraid to send her on her own

They do not want her to leave their home

She falls to the floor, they race for the phone

Now we'll never see how she could have grown.

She told herself she would not get bigger

She's one less plate, her parents serve for dinner

Her reflection is gone, no worries of getting bigger

She has died, from dying to be thinner.

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