Creative | Posted by Sarah Coggrave on 06/4/2010

Organs Grabbing

Organs grabbing

My greedy little body
It’s full of little hands
Feed me now they shout at me
You must meet our demands

Every tiny organ
Is pushing for its share
I was first no me pick me
Their fingers everywhere

Fighting in their thousands
A sea of biting teeth
There’s never going to be enough
For everyone to eat

But please oh please we’re starving
Cry voices full of woe
Without you we can’t function
And there’s nowhere else to go

Above them comes a cackle
A monster way up high
Is stopping me from feeding them
And willing them to die

You stupid lowly body
The demon screams with glee
Your disgusting worthless pleasures
Mean nothing now to me

Filthy maggots crawling
Decay a dying corpse
Consume the starving cavern
The human life, the source.

From somewhere comes a hero
A sudden burst of light
To cast away the devil
Remove him out of sight

And then the food is falling
Like rain so fresh and clean
Nourishing the tired cells
A never-ending stream

But watch out for the flooding
There is no Noah’s ark
No safety for the drowning life
Who plunge into the dark

Two desperate fingers searching
A fist to flick the switch
To bring the poison back again
A feast for them too rich

So up the ocean gushes
Like acid burning teeth
To leave a maze of holes and craters
A graveyard deep beneath

Sarah Coggrave was born on a September afternoon in 1985. After a brief flirtation with floristry Sarah now wants to forge a career in mental health. Sarah has written a book about her recovery called Mariposa. Mariposa is a vivid, colourful and comprehensive account of Sarah Coggrave’s recovery from an eating disorder. Her art and writing paint an eclectic picture of a complex individual trying desperately to wrestle free from the evil voices inside her head. The book follows Sarah’s journey through hospital and then a specialist clinic as she totally transforms and rebuilds her life. Throughout she reflects with startling insight on the root of her problems and confesses her innermost thoughts and feelings. We hear the eating disorder speak…it is deafening in the beginning. However eventually it fades to little more than an inaudible whisper as Sarah finds her own voice.

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