A Boring, Scary Wardrobe

[Guest guest]

This poem written by a local Sydney person came across my desk this

morn - I thought it was quite well written and wanted to share. Enjoy

Cherie

My wardrobe is boring and scary.

Well, the clothes in it are boring and scary.

What's scary is when I see my small clothes

and wonder how I ever fit into them.

Or when I'm small, I can't believe

I ever wore the big ones.

Of course I'm never really small

because I'm tall.

The boring thing is that

because I wear three sizes,

there's never a lot that fits..

Especially when I'm the big size, because

I only like buying clothes when I'm small.

When I'm big, I get out the big clothes

and wonder about style –

but then, non-fashion rules apply

to `big is beautiful'.

Sometimes I get silly and buy clothes that are small

when I'm big,

and then I get scared

wondering if I've wasted my money

It's boring to think of going on another diet.

It's boring having spent so much of my life

trying to be small.

It's scary thinking of how many kilos

I have lost over my lifetime.

It's boring to think of all the people

obsessing about their weight.

It's scary that with our money and effort to lose weight,

we could have looked after all the AIDS orphans in Africa,

or prevented malaria or probably both.

Proud to be thin, ashamed to be fat –

how important is that?

Scary

[Guest guest]

Thanks CherieSounds like what goes thru my head every morning. Nx