one shot: the ugly, truth

if i had money
i would get plastic surgery
(if you have seen my nose
you would understand)
and isn't that the
way it goes, we see
something we don't like
(or looks better
on another
when we look
in the mirror)
so we get it fixed
as if it went deeper
than our epidermis

who says you are unworthy
who says you are unlovable
who set them up
as king to dictate
reality in the lives
of those around them.

i say we grab torches
storm the castle
and overthrow the mockery.

you want to see some
beauty, here borrow
my eyes when i look
at you (not the way i
look at myself...its all
comparison, you know)
but really it will never
come from the words
of another because they
are as flawed as that
puppet king we already
tossed, trussed up in
his own vile tongue,

you are beautiful, you
are beautiful, YOU ARE
BEAUTIFUL...and one day i hope
you believe it & stop
mutilating yourself with
the lies you've been fed
& realise we are all just
stained glass windows, broken
glass pieces put back
together, (without need
of a scalpel) casting rainbows
on each other as the sun
shines through & that
is beautiful too.

& i think, after all,
i will keep my nose.

This One Shot goes out to all those that have been told they are ugly, unworthy of love, decrepit, hopeless, less than, unable, flawed, too broken, helpless, forgotten...you are not. You are a beautiful creation. You are loved.

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