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Shayma A 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.*                      ­                            .
her Dec 2015
Have you ever walked down a dead end
Knowing that there was nothing there
But still have a glimmer of hope that the sign at the beginning was wrong
and that there was something that nobody had discovered yet
all the way at the end?
you.
you're my dead end.
and I want to keep on walking but…
I'm tired.
I need a break.
The tears, they need to dry.
The pain, it needs to be eased.
So I sit for a little while
Eyes blurred
Head pounding
Heart…breaking.
I just sit..
As I sit...I look around me and I realize that
Despite my misery
The grass is still growing
The sun is still shining
The birds are still chirping
The beauty of nature speaks to me…
Its telling me that if there was no rain
I wouldn't be able to appreciate the sun
I know now that if everything went completely perfect
I wouldn't be able to appreciate the imperfections
The imperfections of a winding road; a winding road, with no exit
I'm not perfect
And maybe taking this road was a mistake
But maybe, just maybe, you should try and take mine too
So we could make this mistake together
Let our dead ends combine
Making an entrance into the one road, that I started out looking for..
The one to your heart.
She showed him all her imperfections,
and he greeted them all with a kiss.
He knew all about her flaws,
but still loved her as if they didn't exist.
Cody Haag Nov 2015
I have a boundless amount of imperfections,
And I confess them, profess them,
Reveal them, show their stem,
And for that I'm condemned;
Viewed as ugly, terrible, unbearable,
Seen as bizarre, out-so-far, marred...

But wouldn't you say I'm perfect in a way?
You hide your flaws, keep them from day.
Yet I pay, because I WILL say,
What flaws in me lay.
Please read with enthusiasm and power. :)
Ashley Grey Nov 2015
All your perfect imperfections
Keep surfacing in my mind
Like how things drift in the ocean
The memories of you come back all the time

Fighting these thoughts just don't work
They bob up slowly, surely, unconsciously
Although I've tried to push them down
But to no avail, it forces it's way back, rebelliously
Raúl Oct 2015
We are beautiful, incredible people.
Precisely handcrafted with imperfections.
So we let others dictate our understating,
I call them cowards when they try to take advantage of the weak minded.
Oh how blinded!
They put a dollar in our face and we’re enchanted.
Look beyond the paper,they use to be acres,
of trees that served as our protection.
The ground we stand upon is our foundation.
The wind we feel is our elevation.
Look within and find motivation,
to lead this world in the right direction.
Pax Sep 2015
I give wings to my words
so that it will fly
free from the chains that binds it.

Give it life and beauty
so that it will flourish
despite its darker past.

Then put it out there
somewhere along
     the sea of people
  showing
    *the imperfections
           of my life...
Deon Aug 2015
Art
The value of art
Lies not in its beauty
But in its flaws
It's not about the perfection
But its mistakes
It's not about the art itself
Or the story it tells
The true value of art
Is how it makes you feel
Felt something after seeing some art that didn't really make much sense but really had deep emotions flowing in it... good, bad and scary all at once
The world within Aug 2015
School
Family
Friendship
Boyfriends
or
Girlfriends.
Each sphere of life
put there to make you work.
Work for the best.
Work to be the best.
Work to have the best.
Each sphere having its own imperfections,
Its own weaknesses,
Its own blemishes.

These are are what we call
Perfect imperfections.
Which make life exciting,
stirring and unique.
Every flaw
Every fault
Every error
All put there to make life extraordinary.
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