Pleading for Nothing

I yelled and screeched and screamed,

But you decided to suppress my pleas.

I cried till our hunger died.

I would grunt and moan when nothing but

A can of diet coke was forced to fill me up.

In the store, I whined like a kid for chocolate cake,

But all you cared was how fat it’d make.

You picked up food, then put it back,

Eyes fixated on nutrition facts.

On the weight scale, I wished for you to go blind,

Hoping some sustenance would reach my mind.

Cruel numbers caused you to crumble and fumble.

Now they dictated our fate,

I warned you of this spiraling state.

I told you of how this would end,

Warned you from stepping into this hell,

But for you, it never rang a bell.

Starting from counting every single calorie,

Ending in this sterile gallery where a tube is feeding us food.

So, are you sorry?

Even if you are, they say when you scrunch paper,

It never returns to its previous state,

No matter how hard you try to straighten it