Inside & Out of My Mind

Poems by Lora...

 

 

Conversations with Ana

 

Hunger; the overwhelming ache that runs through my veins

Anger; at myself, everything – everyone, looking at the shell that I’ve become.

I broke the rules.

Ana; she speaks, she shouts, she tells me what they’re all thinking. Fat, fat, fat.

‘Don’t do it again,’ she tells me, ‘or I’ll have to punish you.’

I look down at my thighs.

I’ve already punished myself today.

 

 

 

On returning home after diagnosis

 

Here I am

On my own again.

Memories surround me;

Everything feels different now.