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Selfish

You are desperate to be wanted. To be desirable, to be completed by another. You click, click, click. The selfies, the lols, the omgs, The “ur so fit ***” The likes and the retweets. You need to be seen and you come to me desperate downtrodden on your knees begging hinting at the need to be complimented so that you can feel good for a minute. Dear Lover, you tell me I'm beautiful not out of the kindness of your heart but out of hope that I might say it back. You hunt through the nice things that I say and draw them out from a simple sentence and fashion them into a novel, wide-eyed and hopeful that I might fall at your feet, petticoats flailing as I descend and declare that I need you but I don't. And I understand, I have sympathy for you and your need for constant reassurance that you are, in fact, good. I can only apologise, Dear Lover, that I cannot build a house before I have learnt to lay the foundations. I will only break you whilst I make myself. I am beautiful, yes. But I am less interested in that and more in who you think is not. You tell me I have the looks AND the personality as though looks matter more so forgive me, Dear Lover, if I seem disillusioned. I will not tell you such things, and I shall not feed you shallow compliments to give you a temporary relief from your own fabricated hardship. I will do right by you and allow you to discover your beauty for yourself. Because I will not always be here And when I'm gone how will you know? I am both beautiful and selfish, yes, but so are you.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2017




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Date: 5/21/2025 1:47:00 AM
Thanks for sharing this... exposing your thoughts through your unique poetic style. Meanwhile, I greet you with the love of the Lord, expressed by John 3:16 of the Bible, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Be blessed.
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