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body aversion

a poem

By Kayleigh Fraser ✨Published 3 years ago 1 min read
body aversion
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you are not your body

nor your mind

a spiritual knowing

every seeker will find

.

you live inside this

experience machine

a miraculous vessel

that should feel serene

.

yet we are not born

of a canvas pure

ancestral trauma

is ours to endure

.

your obsession with

your identity -

a dysfunction growing

in intensity

.

body dysmorphia

began before you

your mother and father

had it too

.

their fear and disgust

became your burden

and led you under

the knife of a surgeon

.

accepting the vessel

that you’ve been given

means feeling the pain

ancestors had hidden

.

yet we all prefer

insane extremes

to avoid this pain

and emotional scenes

.

we medicate

or mutilate

instead of addressing

the root of our hate

.

rot begins from

deep within

where self acceptance

ought to begin

.

a foetus poisoned

by body rejection

before it even

feels connection

.

into the consciousness

this deeply embeds

aversion overpowers

pure beings instead

.

what should be vibrance

and joy, gifts from above

this soul is weighted

and without true love

.

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About the Creator

Kayleigh Fraser ✨

philosopher, alchemist, writer & poet with a spirit of fire & passion for all things health & love related 💫

“Darkness to me is like water to the sea”

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    Written by Kayleigh Fraser ✨