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

[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