Beauty's Prey//A Poem

There once was a girl who was colorless
except for the blue of her veins
who despaired over the looks
she could never seem to attain.
she tried to be kind
to the body that she owned
but it was all for nothing
she wanted only bone.
her only friends were mirrors
that told her she wasn't enough
that if she lost a couple pounds
she would then be loved.
and she trusted in their words
as any friend would do
even though their hearts were cold
and their words were untrue.
and as the years went by
she began to fade
striving for the body
that others had forbade.
for she was only a ghost
of who she was before
who struggled for the thinness
that models beautifully wore.
and when her body was hollow
and she felt the end was near
she tried one last time
to stare into the mirror.
but she saw only weight
 that needed to be gone
the never-ending pattern
that had been going on for so long.
and then her heart would not beat
as starving hearts seem to do
dying with the secret truth
that she never knew.
that beauty wasn't about her weight, her looks,
or the size clothes she wore
that beauty was more than just skin deep
that she didn't have to die for.
but she gave herself to beauty
the dangerous sort of kind
that fed her only insults
and seeped into her mind.
and in an act of desperation
she gave herself away
and became another helpless victim
of beauty's prey.