Flaws and faults blame each other.
Demonized like Succubus-Incubus.
Philautia, amour propre cursed lover.
Garden fountains, tears and mucus.
Morally peaceful dignity of lover.
Love is aloof and leaves the circus.
Unveil yourselves
Decipher the lyrics of your life
by fathoming the flaws
The rhythm may not be sublime
but bestow the music of your own,
The music of your worth and love!
Shall I plant a rose patch to explain your scars
So the world may never know how you treat your beauty?
Shall I hide the blades that oblige your compulsion
To shave away the flesh that burdens you so?
Shall I distract you with gold and glitter
And pull your eyes away from those scarlet stains?
Shall I bind you with thornless rose stems
If not for pleasure, then for a moment of peace?
Shall I pull down my plaques and papers
So that I might trade them for your undivided affection?
Shall I salve in scripture and pray to the wind
That this apparent affliction may wander from you?
Shall I mire in melancholia, and exchange my hope
As a sacrificial lamb to ransom your amour-propre?
Shall I remove myself so that I may no longer prod
Your beauty to suffer the lies that only your eyes see in the mirror?
Shall I plant a rose patch to explain your scars
So the world may never know how you treat your beauty?
Me me,my forever sigh
will insecurity die
in an hedonistic cry?
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