When I Look In the Mirror
I don’t know what it’s called
But there is a little flap of skin behind my two front teeth
My two front teeth
My two front teeth
And sometimes it aches
And itches
And hurts
And the only way to make it feel better
Is by scratching it with something sharp
And I make it bleed and it runs red
But it fixes the itching and the ache
There’s some acne on my back
And when I scratch my back I can feel them
But they aren’t whiteheads
So I can’t take care of them
I’m not very skinny
I’m not super big
But when I eat I can be
Sort of a pig
I have scars on my hands
And I wonder if he notices them when he holds them
The giant scar on my knee that
Aches when it’s going to rain
It acts like a giant goose bump
It hardness when it’s cold
And gets soft when it’s warm
And since there is nerve damage
I can’t scratch it
So when it itches
I have to hit it
I don’t have a gap between my thighs
I have scars between my boobs
One of my nipples is bigger than the other
I have too much hair “Down There”
My toenails are chipped
My fingernails bit
My hair is a bright fake red
My eyes are bright green
When they want to be
Otherwise they change to brown
I have scarring on my face
The line on my back doesn’t
Go all the way to my butt
My eyebrows have grown in
But I can’t see within
Because whose soul shows from the outside
When I look in the mirror
This is what I see
So I understand why no one
Could fall in love with me…
Copyright © Kennedy Lea | Year Posted 2014
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