if my body could speak

I’ve been your home since the very beginning,

Took your first breath, braced your first fall.

Somewhere between the mirrors and measurements,

You stopped hearing me at all.

I’ve stretched for your joy and your heartbreak.

Held hands that never gave back. 

You blamed me for numbers I didn’t choose

And I broke under the math.

You saw the curve of my stomach as weakness.

But it was only proof who stayed.

You tried to make me quiet

But I was never meant to fade. 

You don’t have to love me every morning.

You just have to let me exist.

You don’t need to worship this body,

Just stop punishing it.

And maybe one day you’ll believe it.

That I was never wrong or bad.

Just the body of a girl, doing her best,

With all the pain she had.