Priyanka Kumar Poet I do not know?

Skin Deep

I have often wondered 
What it is like to be
Beautiful
To have a face that would launch 
A thousand ships 
Into the distant sea,
In old forgotten times.

What is it like?
To have people look at your face
And smile
To know that you have made
Their day
Helped them send their worries 
To a faraway place…

How does it feel?
To wear a nice dress
And not doubt that it really 
Becomes you;
To look into a mirror
And not have to flinch
To see a face that stuns you…

And then people say
Beauty is only skin deep
And a crooner sings 
That you are beautiful inside
And these two contradictions force a film star
To catch some beauty sleep
While normal people like me sigh
And write poems about wanting to fly
And look around 
Desperately
For a place to hide.

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