The more I ate

The more it ate away

So I stopped

I met hunger beneath my second glass of ice this morning

She had cheekbones

and rib bones

and collar bones

All manner of bones

Boastingly proud through her dress

And I believed I had met an angel,

So beautiful was she

And I ignored her hair,

Thinning

Saw in place a smile,

Winning

And suddenly I need never pass anything between my lips again

But choke down the words

“I am full” and “I am happy”

At every meal time

When my stomach isn’t the only thing empty,

When I am so goddamn hollow

That I am afraid nothing will ever fill me

Yet fear the feeling of full

I've met Hunger

She says hi.

She says you would look nice with a thigh gap