POETRY: “Beautiful”

 

By Rainery Flores

Beauty is said to be your quality, the way you look…
the way other people are supposed to see you…
insight.

But despite the way you look
You don’t dare to see the fact that you are beautiful
That you are special.

But you can’t get it out your head that people said you looked like a wrong answer…
A mistake…
A house that collapsed after an earthquake that people were trying to rebuild…but couldn’t seem to get the job done.

And it just keeps giving me all these types of headaches.
‘Cuz it’s just like…
I keep thinking
Why’d you care?
Why’d you dare believe the words that came out those people’s mouths?

‘Cuz at the end of the day we’re
Just all equal.
Those people are just lethal,
And you just gotta focus on the people
That DO tell you that you’re beautiful … no matter what anyone else says.

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