"A Starving Star" By Deja Epps

care tactic: write about how not eating causes bones to break and dissipate and crumble away like dust because malnourishment can lead to arthritis which as a result leads to cartilage in joints to break down and cause bone rubbing.
 
Typically, we get lost in a crowd of cheers
Especially when you can genuinely tell yourself
“Oh wow, those are for me?”
 
You know, those moments in a storyline where the character’s dreams are closer in proximity
That sweet opportunity to let adrenaline blind the hunger is easier to reach
 
Reality begins to fade as you walk up the steps of the stage
 
I conjure up my bow
And hoist up my violin
 
I tune its sound
And the show finally begins
 
G...D...A...E..
 
For only a split second my mind disappears into a dream
Only before I hear an animalistic scream
 
As if with the snap of a finger
My arms begin to shake
 
They then lock and rattle like skeleton bones
Withstanding an earthquake
 
I look to stage left, then to the right
Oh no! My reality demons have come to cause strife
 
My arms turn grey
And my beloved child shatters as it hits the floor
 
My limbs then turn black
And my demons laughter begins to roar
 
“Help me! Help me!”
I scream into the audience
 
But no sympathy just plain empty faces
This was no longer heaven
 
Six feet under I felt
Soon my body was frozen
 
My neck went stiff
My knees buckled in
The mind and body were no longer connected
 
My carcass turned black and my hands started to crack They soon began to disappear
 
Like dust I watched my talent, my passion that was carried in my hands
Immerse from my body like a dust devil
 
The demons who wear suits flew in with dust pans
And when done exited stage left…
 
And when the disaster came to an end
There was nothing left of me.