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Cruel

Eyes so painted and lips so tainted the theater of the skin but the beauty lays within Disguised beneath so many layers poses for a snapshot moment could be more attractive than you appear but never be more immaculate than you And to an abstract become inflated every blemish suffers unadulterated it becomes the scar never to be contented with who you really are Shape and form must be perfected enhanced the puppet strings connected claims identity in the factories of copy after copy If you were and only could be more faultless than you really should be picture possessed for an exposure minute the tailors dummy of publicity Eyes so tainted and lips so painted every defect concealed below decorated intangible mural you become animated stage of presentation the cruel theaters of the skin betray the beauty which always lays within

Copyright © | Year Posted 2016




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Date: 11/5/2016 6:57:00 AM
very descriptive write about the craze of selling immaculate skin. big business where is the person left who lies within. loved this poem.
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Colin Mitchell Williams
Date: 11/6/2016 8:21:00 AM
thank you Holly, I'm very pleased you liked it.

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