Showers
don't make you
clean.

They just make you
smell better -
like coconuts and lavender.

And the pretty scents
mask your ***** thoughts
for a day.

So you take another,
and another,
and another -

Hoping your mind
will become pretty
just like those pretty soaps.

Hoping you will become clean
with new thoughts of love
and happiness.

Hoping...

But showers
and soaps
do not make you
*clean.