When did her will to resist  
shift, become  
obsessive resistance?  
Implacably  
pushed aside,  
the outsiders could only watch  
as every day  
their daughter  
wilfully,  
visibly,  
shrank  
away.
Janice Windle
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/pains-and-regrets-collection-anorexia/