That Too

"I thought maybe you were crying because I gained a hundred pounds?"
That too.
I thought maybe I was more than skin and folds. I thought wrong.
That too was wishful thinking.
I will no longer think of myself as anything but what I need to lose.
A woman with too much weight to carry and when I walk in front of you now, I feel naked.
That too has changed.
I am my weight. The numbers only.
I enter a room and you are in it and I feel 250 pounds.
It doesn't matter that I lost almost ten.
That I live, laugh, and play mother well- means nothing to you.
I am my weight.
I will forever hear your little sobs and think-
That too.