The “Fight”

“Keep off the weight”

As though extra skin were a feral beast to hold at knife point

but is the worst that could happen be becoming more than?

And is that weight really even baring it’s teeth-

or are you the one throwing punches at something not even attacking?

You’re wasting time and pain wailing at hypothetical parts of yourself

when those arms could be wrapped around the figure you have instead

What if when you drop your fear and fists

the thing does not lunge at you

but simply smiles and waves?

What if all you’ve been fighting is nothing worth fearing

and the ones to be mad at

are the ones who convinced you to wage an unnecessary war?

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