Was It Ever Enough? by Anonymous

Was It Ever Enough?

By Anonymous

Inhale, exhale You ’ ve done this before You are a well oiled machine Your stomach doesn ’t twist in sickness when you wake up You heavy eyes don ’t beg yourself to go back to sleep It’ s simple really Ignore the aches in your legs from the practice you went to the day before Don ’t mind that you didn ’t eat this morning Your body isn ’t telling you something is wrong No You are stronger than this Get your work done Wring out every cell in your brain Hate yourself for not being able to just get it done How will you go to college? How will you ever build a life for yourself without straight A’ s? Your future is at stake You keep telling yourself you're giving everything you can Are you really? Come on You know your better than this Feel the sweat dripping down your face Seep into your eyes until it burns Your body knows no other pain like this Your lungs feel like collapsing Your legs are screaming at you to stop But you still have another mile to run

To get skinnier To get “happier ” That’ s what they tell you running does Do you really want to dip out on yourself? Why can ’t you just be motivated enough? Normal enough? Pretty enough? Why can ’t you just be enough? Why aren ’t you enough? Why will you never be enough?