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I know I don't have the prettiest of faces,
Mine's covered and cluttered with blemishes and braces.
I often hide it behind my hair
To conceal myself from the world's judging stares.
My body isn't perfect, no. Nowhere near that!
It's covered in bruises and layered in fat.
Perhaps if I had more defined curves,
I'd be more fortunate at finding true love.
My nose could be smaller. My lips and eyes too,
My bust could increase by one size or a few.
I couldn't count the times that I've wished
To look like Beyonce or Jada Pinkett Smith.
But despite my imperfections, my flaws,
I am happy just how I am because
I've learnt to love myself, you see,
As I look exactly as I was meant to be.
I know that the skin is only one part
Of who I am. The soul and the heart
Show that true beauty comes from within.
It shines through kind hearts and overshadows the skin.
So I do my best to shine from my shell,
Accepting myself and others as well,
To make this world a little less of a hell.
I may be ugly to the eyes of the world,
But in my heart, I'm a beautiful girl.
Mine's covered and cluttered with blemishes and braces.
I often hide it behind my hair
To conceal myself from the world's judging stares.
My body isn't perfect, no. Nowhere near that!
It's covered in bruises and layered in fat.
Perhaps if I had more defined curves,
I'd be more fortunate at finding true love.
My nose could be smaller. My lips and eyes too,
My bust could increase by one size or a few.
I couldn't count the times that I've wished
To look like Beyonce or Jada Pinkett Smith.
But despite my imperfections, my flaws,
I am happy just how I am because
I've learnt to love myself, you see,
As I look exactly as I was meant to be.
I know that the skin is only one part
Of who I am. The soul and the heart
Show that true beauty comes from within.
It shines through kind hearts and overshadows the skin.
So I do my best to shine from my shell,
Accepting myself and others as well,
To make this world a little less of a hell.
I may be ugly to the eyes of the world,
But in my heart, I'm a beautiful girl.
Because beauty's only skin deep.
EDIT: Changed the use of end-stopping slightly to slow the rhythm down a bit and changed the diction in line 4.
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EDIT: Changed the use of end-stopping slightly to slow the rhythm down a bit and changed the diction in line 4.
Thank you for taking your time to view this work of mine.
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Beauty Within She is a visionby ~chewyraezen
In a cracked glass mirage
She sees lines
too much contemplation
Tattered skin
Like taffy
Blue lips
She forgets to breathe
She is a distortion
A sight seen from the other side
It tells a story
She is resigned
To her broken reflection
Accepts that it is truth
But she is more than lines, cracks, and blue lips
She slips
Her hand through the surface
It comes back bloody
She becomes real
A being
Struggling to be human
To look beyond the surface
Into honesty and courage
She looks away
And sees herself from the inside
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Very good indeed. I really liked it.
Everyone has been there at least once. On the side you don't like yourself, and on the side you accept yourself.
Beautifully written. It has a flow in it that you can't stop reading, ha.
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"Dreams are my reality."
Everyone has been there at least once. On the side you don't like yourself, and on the side you accept yourself.
Beautifully written. It has a flow in it that you can't stop reading, ha.
--
"Dreams are my reality."