Scars

“Love is not blind. I see with single eye
Your ugliness and other women’s grace.”-Edna St. Vincent Millay

Scars

by Carmen H Gray

There is a collective fascination

Of the facade of the flawless

Maybe because it is a myth

We aim to maintain

The perfect plastic smiles

Parading by us

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But what fascinated you

About me

Were the little broken capillaries

The port wine stain

The red blotch

The broken bits

That I wanted to hide

From the made up world