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Dec 2015
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.
                  
Shayma.*                      ­                            .
Shayma A
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