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Silk Demons

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At the age of four,
every girl wants to be a ballerina.
The shimmery tule of pink
tutus and the twinkling piano
of ballet music is almost
too much for their little minds
to fathom.
The only thing they gather from
those twirling girls is their
beauty.
What little girls never notice
are the bags underneath the
ballerinas' eyes, or the
stress squirming inside them.
They don't notice the pain
of their toes
en pointe.
They wouldn't notice any of it until
they were the ones on stage,
fighting back the crashing of
their mentallity;
competition, eating disorders, anxiety.
Enough is never enough.
Not until she falls,
and relinquishes the rights of her
silk ballet slippers.
If you're a ballerina or a dancer, please, this is just my opinion. This is mostly inspired by the movie "Black Swan".
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