some-body // TW: body image

Quick to repell
Quick to regret
I am slower to love
Than I am to disgust

Photos, reflections, and memories 
Both in my phone and behind my eyes
Distorts and dysmorphs 
In effect

As if it's a funny filter
That's not funny at all
Makes me forget to filter
My own self hatred
Remind me that 
I can only love, in protest
That I can only self sooth,
In retrospect

Quick to repell
Quicker to regret
I might be slower to love
But I always get there, in the end
To my beauty, my body, and self respect. 

B. S.

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