Don’t remember the time

When the number on the scale was infinitely less.

Don’t remember the time

When your bones were months away from dust.

Don’t remember the panic

Inside of your chest

When the white porcelain rose goosebumps

And you failed to protest-

The one thing you should have been fighting for;

You stubborn, foolish, arrogant girl.

 

Don’t remember the time

When plates would mock you.

Don’t remember your lies

As you said you had already fed at a friend’s house that night.

Please forget that dark time,

Please forget that dark time,

Please forget that dark time

As you lay there with damp eyes.

You are not stronger, no,

Though you fool yourself into thinking you are;

You stubborn, foolish, arrogant girl.

 

Don’t remember the sorrow

In your best friend’s eyes.

Don’t remember the one

Who shared it all without blinking twice.

Don’t remember feeling alone

As you made rivers in your pillow.

The girl who could never be perfect,

Can never be perfect,

She will never be perfect.