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Natalie Hart Nov 2014
all these pretty people
with ******* flawless skin
unblemished bodies
to contain their confident
loving souls
i look in the mirror
and i cry
i can't take what looks back at me
its agonizing imperfections
and taunting discontentment
tonight i want to die
but i won't tomorrow
so i hold on
despite hating myself entirely
You are too sweet to lie
I am too much a lie to be sweet

You are too loved to be hated
I am too hated to be loved

You are too gentle to hurt
I am too hurt to be gentle

You are too good to the bad
I am too bad to the good

You are too beautiful to be ugly
I am too ugly to be beautiful

You are too kind for this tainted world
I am too tainted for this kind world

You are too perfectly perfect
I am too imperfectly imperfect

You are my contradiction
Penthesilea Nov 2014
My voice was shaken
My mind went blank
My palms were sweat
My hands were cold

The look they gave me was shame
Their minds are full of poisonous remark
I can't bear the eyes that will judge
I am not perfect, **would all of you stop?
I was so embarrass :/
Megan Sookram Nov 2014
You've been looking for so long for that perfect girl.
Maybe what you don't realize is that that perfect girl doesn't exist.
Maybe what you don't realize is that that perfect girl had already slipped away.
Maybe what you don't realize is that that perfect girl is standing right in front of you, all this time.
Maybe what you don't realize is that that perfect girl is not so... Perfect.
Maybe what you don't realize is that you're not so perfect yourself.
That perfect girl, you've just missed her.
Sometimes it's not when you're perfect
That you feel like yourself, it's true;
It's when you're embarrassingly imperfect
That you know that you're definitely you.
We're all just broken pieces
Falling apart
We need the other half that fits
Fixing our heart
All our jagged edge and flaws
Coming undone
Just needing our matching soul
Our perfect "one"
Love is simply two imperfect people
Joining together
Making something more than perfect
*That lasts forever
Thanks to a friend for the inspiration to write this. ❤
axr Oct 2014
I am the nicest mean person you will ever know
I can **** around without being a *****.
I am shy at first, but once they get to know me I am the loudest.
I am that kid in the class who doesn't get attention
I am the one who hates or loves their reflection.
I am the deep thinker or carefree.
In my world,  there is no stability.
I am fault finding or appreciative.
I feel denigrated.
I am the pessimist who is an optimist.
I make mistakes, enemies and friends.
When I write poetry,
I don't expect it to trend.
Named after the Indian goddess of victory
I am not always sweet.
I am perfect yet imperfect
as we all can be.
DAVID WILLIAMS Oct 2014
I always question my Creator,
My Father and my Mother
for making an imperfect being

Pretending to be blissful,
but often grieving within
"O wretched me ", immersed in pain

Born with a conquering heart
but never able to conquer

On the game field
this little heart burns as of a champion
but gives up easily in others eyes

Yearning to make a difference
but never able to

The imperfect soul is sobbing for a day
when he with his creator's help
will change the world's perspective

That losers are bound to lose,
not knowing, a loser falls to rise.

Imperfect was I born until this day
but there will be a day when
I will rise from the ashes

through Him which strengthens me
and assert "I-m-perfect"
dedicated to my loving family
Jenny Oct 2011
God’s been here
Now there’s you
God has me
Now you do
There’s a way to make this work
There’s a way to know the truth
God found me you.

I live my life for love
The kind that overflows
God  has loved us both
Now we do

Because there’s a way to make this work
There’s a way to know the truth
God loves us together
Just like I love you.

I could live my life without it
I could live my life alone
But I could never be so free
Without the love you both bring me.

So God please leave your love with us
Together we go on
In your freedom truth be told
We’ll never be alone.

There’s a way to make this work
There’s a way to know the truth
God loves us together.
Just like I love you.
Written in 2009 for my then boyfriend who is now my husband. My prayer at the end was a plea because he was afraid of the faith I had. A relative of his got divorced because his wife was to forceful in her beliefs and used them against him to make him feel guilty about things instead of treating him with respect and love as her faith teaches us. I have never met a perfect Christian even myself...they don't exist..and that is the whole point.
She leaves a lump of emotion in your throat,
A string of topaz around your neck,
And a sense of wonder in her wake.
She is a collection of faults,
Sweet imperfections,
A series of dents in a smooth surface.
She smokes her cigarettes as an apology
For breathing
And loves the feeling of holding hands,
But with a wine bottle.
Her blood has been replaced with whiskey
And bad decisions
And she'll touch you like poetry,
Sweetly, making you feel like
You're not alone.
She is drenched in honey and holy water
And you want to lick it off her,
Craving the taste with every fiber of your being.
She is violently beautiful,
That honey drenched dreamer.
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