i look at myself in the mirror
and i see a red-haired leopard
with man-eating eyes
that are smudged with left-over eyeliner
from a night-out with the elitists
i see silky, curly red hair
that people so often
get entwined in
thinking that this is the reason
for the things i do
in the mirror my lips are a beautiful snarl
and my freckles,
camouflage for the jungle i creep in
my nose,
a defining arc
reflected back at me,
a red-haired leopard
in a concrete jungle
doesn't belong here
got put in a zoo
on accident
a red-haired leopard
looking for escape
from inside of me
they'll try to tell you
that mirrors lie
but they
don't
Aug 31, 2013
Aug 31, 2013 at 3:30 AM UTC
i look at myself in the mirror
and i see a red-haired leopard
with man-eating eyes
that are smudged with left-over eyeliner
from a night-out with the elitists
i see silky, curly red hair
that people so often
get entwined in
thinking that this is the reason
for the things i do
in the mirror my lips are a beautiful snarl
and my freckles,
camouflage for the jungle i creep in
my nose,
a defining arc
reflected back at me,
a red-haired leopard
in a concrete jungle
doesn't belong here
got put in a zoo
on accident
a red-haired leopard
looking for escape
from inside of me
they'll try to tell you
that mirrors lie
but they
don't