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Perfection

You're a canvas smothered in fragmented glass

Mirror of beauty,

Aesthetics of God.

You're a plastic portal to the Ideal form,

Propped up on a cliff,

It leads to a brick wall.

 

Try to delve into yourself

Obsessed with the shining garbage on the outside

But it doesn't exist

It's just a painting.

 

You slice your hands as you attempt to claw your way inside

Blood dripping and staining and real,

It doesn't exist

You're just a painting

 

Painted by you,

Painted by them,

Painted by us.

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Written by
sarah-richardson
25 / F
Published
May 8, 2014
Lines·Words
17·87
Tags
#poem#words#life#god#beauty#thoughts#mind#perfect#obsession#impossible
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