Dear potential lover* When you fall in love with me
Make sure to love the way, my face dulls on gloomy days; like a rose in autumn.
And fall for my muddy brown eyes, that take you to worlds with distant skies; eyes like fields of adventure.
My stretch marks, scattered simultaneously, like strokes of a brush set wild and free; their colour of clouds with silver lining.
Fall for my unpainted nails, the plain sort stubby, and cut almost too short; nails made for playing in the soil.
Love my tummy, un-flat and not so lean, the kind you don’t see in magazines; a tummy with gentle hills.
Admire the way I look, lost, snuggled up in a book; the way I stare at the trees, my fine hair playing with the breeze; love my excessive day-dreaming and my serenity on afternoon walks.
Dear potential lover: Love all of me; My perfections and my imperfections and my perfect imperfections.