1.  Eyes tend to linger for longer
Not eyes brimming with love and adoration
Or something that could fulfill salvation

But serpentine blinders

2. Check my bony wrists
For that same snakes venomous kiss
Let the poison run through my veins
If that means the public will seize to refer to me as if I feign

3. I asked my friend if it was a sin to find myself beautiful
Erroneous, is confidence not suitable?
The verdict was inscrutable

4. I feel the same
Those insecurities that would plague
my brain, remain

5. People expressing that I look appealing
As if before I looked appalling

I am the same person

6. The suffocating and self loathing question,
“Have you been on a diet?”

7. Physically I have found this strength, this courage, and this firmness
External factors have made a mockery out of my life, as if I’m worthless

8. When I changed my life positively
I did not pray for this pessimistic mentality

9. Hold my waist, like I have a disability
Because I don’t know if I can ground my stability

10. Every pound lost
Correlated with fragments of my spirit tossed
Now I’m left wondering was it worth the cost?