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It Hurts
by: Tom

I don't know how to stop eating.
I eat it all up and it feels so good so painless.
It's like swallowing pain by the fist fulls
and never having to see it again.

I help everyone. I see everyones pain and I cry.
But how do I feel? Don't ask me I sure don't know.
Why can't I cry for me?

Everyone thinks I am fine just a little fat.
But I feel huge and I still eat.
Eat and stop and eat and stop.
It has trapped me.

Now I can't stop eating.
So now I see that I am in pain
and I need to help me.

©2001 Tom. Reprinted with Permission.

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