Body Shaming Of Women – Does Size Really Matter? [Poem]

Posted: March 13, 2016

Body shaming of women is everywhere – too fat, too thin, too curvy, too flat! What does a woman’s body really have to do with the woman she is?

Talk all you want about my body

It does not matter to me

I’m more than all of you put together

And yet only my size you can see

Who defined the perfect body

To look like a fragile hour glass

I do not want to comply to this

This body shaming, I shall pass

I am happy the way I am

I have curves, here and there

Cellulite and stretch marks appear too

I love them, why do you care

Small, medium, large or bigger

It is just a label after all

Why desperately try to fit in

Instead choose comfort and stand tall

People will continue to laugh

Like their body, their minds are thin

Pay no heed to them

Carrying some extra weight is not a sin

What matters is how healthy you are

Your stats have nothing to do with it

Take care of yourself the way you want to

Do not worry, as long as you’re fit

Ignore the vanity and march ahead

Paint your life with your own color chart

Size sometimes does matter

Only when it comes to the heart

Published earlier here.

Image source: women’s sizes by Shutterstock.

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