Perception Skewed By Love

Perception Skewed by Love By Elton Camp Poems always praise lovers to the sky Due to love, I fear the poets went awry Her hair is beautiful as gleaming silk? Why do I not spot any girls of that ilk? Her eyes are clear pools of such delight? The girls that I see use theirs only for sight. Her cheeks are so beautiful and rosy red? In most girls, they are the sides of her head Her lips are full and the shape so fine? Where do they find women that divine? Girls I notice, their lips look well enough They’re shaped to talk, eat, and such stuff Her nose is more beautiful than you can tell? The women I see use theirs mainly to smell Her neck is white and graceful like a swan? How would a neck, long as that, be any fun? On and on the extravagant description goes Until they’ve gone from her head to her toes I wonder how a creature glamorous as she Interested in any normal man could ever be