LJIdol / LPF: Week 2: My Mount Rushmore

[codenamewanderlust]

I am learning how to love my own skin 

And all that is within 
 

My heartbeat like crashing waves 

Under abundant breasts

 

Body positivity 

Rejecting impossible standards

Accepting me

 

The self inflicted scars 

Carved into my arms

My Mount Rushmore of bad days

And half remembered pains

 

The birth marks and freckles and 

Misshapen toes

 

My unaligned eyes 

That make strangers nervous

 

I will break through these distortions 

Until I have reclaimed every inch of my skin

Where it stretches and curves

Cherry blossom tinted

Strong despite assumptions

 

I am expanding my expectations 

I am learning how to love myself

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100 words

Comments

[bleodswean]

This is POWERFUL stuff. Raw honesty and beauty. I like the way you interjected the prompt and I love the idea of reclamation!

[adoptedwriter]

Excellent!!!

[nayanawrites]

This is really good - I think this is a journey we ought to take with the destination being love of oneself.

I believe all of us are imperfectly perfect - we are unique - and so many times we forget that and fail to appreciate our lives and our stories and yes even our scars.

I loved the way you incorporated the prompt into this.

Well Done.

[jenwithapen]

Body positivity FTW!! =)) I am such a GIANT and super avid Twenty One Pilots fan (though, a fairly recent one!) and some of this reminded me SO much of their vibe. The first few lines, specifically!

I am ALL about it!

Then, of course, we changed course. Direction. And wow. In 100 words you managed to paint a picture of pain and damage and hope and despair. I'd do anything to change that pain. It's real for too many people. If we'd all just look at what we have in common, rather than what we have that's different... well, what a world it would be. <3

[the_eternal_overthinker]

Lovely take! Poetry is always difficult and you did a great job here. Kudos!

[fausts_dream]

Love this. About 10 years ago I said I was tired of losing the same 40lbs over and over (something like 11 times) so now I am 300lbs+ but comfortable in my own skin.

I just smile and nod at people who have faux health concerns.

[rayaso]

Really wonderful, especially the first stanza and the last line.

[bewize]

Very well done and compelling!

[dmousey]

You have to love yourself first. Once you do that - you can do anything. People who love themselves, also respect themselves, and this projects condidence.

Well done.😊✌~~~d

[megatronix]

Hell yes! There is a lot of power and determination in this. Awesome! And I love the sentiment too, heck yeah for body positivity!! More power to you!!

Great take on the prompt. :)

[flipflop_diva]

This is such a powerful statement in so few words. I love the last two lines the most!

[halfshellvenus]

I will break through these distortions
Until I have reclaimed every inch of my skin
The distortions, the remembered pain of hard times, but yet knowing that you have survived all of it.

There is such strength in seeing and letting go and forging the path forward. Wishing you well with all of this!

[murielle]

This is beautiful! And it meets my own journey on so many levels. Wonderful! Well done! And yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!