Tattooed faces
Pierced faces
Sunburned faces

Faces with beards
Faces with glasses
Faces with makeup

White faces
Black faces
Latino faces

Faces are a window
Faces show the soul
Faces present a person

A face may not be pretty
A face may not be kind
A face may not be safe

But behind a face, a person
But behind a face, a human being
But behind a face, a life

Look not upon the outside of a person
But upon the inside
The truth of the person is what lies on the inside

*And not on the outside

I sit
Contemplating life
and love
and destiny
Why, among all of the earthen wonders
Do I always see your face
The face I want scrubbed from my memory
But why does it not go away?
It is because my heart remains
Beating
Beating for you
Beating for my memories of you
All that was good and grand and glorious
All just a memory
Perhaps scrubbed from the mind
But always remaining in the heart