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In the name of our goddesses, their perfection and
our diffident weakened spirit, adulterated by the grime
of the media, we march to drums of a new religion, bowing
down to the worship of skeletal idols hoisted above flames
of our insecurity.
We sacrifice our strength for the weaknesses of an
emaciated soul that desire the perfection designed by death
where problems become grinded into dust that successfully
bury haunts of unforgotten, troubled pasts, which will undoubtedly
resurrect into sticks of insurmountable barriers against
our self-worth.
We clasp our hands and close our eyes so that we won’t
become distracted by the enemy that lurks within hidden
curvatures of our waistline and thighs as our virgin tongues
beg for forgiveness each time a taste of sweetened sorrow
penetrate tightened lips that has sinned due to lack of
coveted self-control.
We repent by purging failures down the toilet, rewarding
ourselves with euphoric wishes of becoming as light as fairies,
having the ability to defy the gravity our unwanted desires.
Flesh and bones are our symbols of righteousness as
we strive to become like our goddesses of perfection that
stroll down the cat-walk in a breeze of arrogance and satisfaction
that can only be achieved by fasting forty days and forty
nights in the wilderness of self-hatred…
forty days and forty nights in a dessert of desperation…
forty days and forty nights trapped in a distorted prism
that reflect unattainable beauty…
forty days and forty nights without temptations from the
enemy…
We march to the drums of a new religion;
a religion that preaches the principle of defiance from
the bibles of Vogue and Cosmopolitan;
a religion that reinforces the fact that a woman shall not
live by bread alone, but by an unhealthy dose of fat-free,
sugar-free, significantly reduced caloric intake of indefatigable
resistance against the enemy……herself.
Why?
Because without much thought, she will be prone to succumb
to the lure of one of the most basic needs of survival:
FOOD.
This is a new religion……sad but true.
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