#birthmark
Our crude imperfections they serve to remind
Of the ****** limits by which we’re defined
And so I surmise
That you need not despise
The ephemeral flaws of a natural kind
Nov 28, 2024
Nov 28, 2024 at 3:29 AM UTC
You can't craft honor
Character a clear birthmark
Darkness a defect
Sep 19, 2023
Sep 19, 2023 at 5:00 AM UTC
A mask looms over me and covers my face.
"Count backwards from 100."
My mouth feels like cotton--
My tongue weighs a ton.
I am falling backwards into an orange fuzz.
Pink and yellow squiggles bounce around me.
A blue one whispers to me,
"Give her more. She's waking up."
When I finally open my eyes,
I ask for it.
I see it in my mind's eye:
Brown, fuzzy
But I want to see the other side--
I imagine that it looks like the back of an eyelid.
I want to hold it and pet it and love it forever-- warm velvet and slime all in one piece of skin--
A most precious part of me that they have removed
It was unsightly
It might have caused cancer
I will never get it back
When I miss it, I touch my scar and am thankful for it.
They can't take me away completely.
Something still remains.
Apr 5, 2015
Apr 5, 2015 at 6:55 PM UTC
It was dark against a blanket
Of skin as white as snow
And I've hidden it in a way
So that no one, it, saw
But whenever I got naked
I look at it with fear
With despise and with helplessness
For I can't make it disappear
It had been there
For as long as I recall
But I never had enough courage
To break down that wall
I was never enough able
To show them that mark
'Cause I've seen people who did
And to their fire, it gave the spark
But to a selected few
This deformity, I've shown
Some would show me theirs too
And I'd say I'd never known
What if I wasn't born
With this godforsaken thing?
What if it's a scar that's due
To a young me's suffering?
So my despise melts
And in comes my sorrow
For because of this birthmark
I might not live to see tomorrow
Dec 8, 2014
Dec 8, 2014 at 2:13 PM UTC
we walked by the haunted house
and made out on the front porch
people say we fell in love at first sight that evening,
but i couldn’t see until the morning
and that beautiful birthmark that covered half of your body
i ran my fingers across it
like some kind of seamstress
and you threw my legs over your shoulders
and bit my fingers and i couldn’t stop looking at your birthmark,
it looked like a scar
and i asked you to drive me to walgreens
something about a plan,
what we were going to be
but we got lost and tangled
and my kitten bit our ankles in the kitchen
where i made you black coffee and i rubbed my eyes
too much, too much, i broke a blood vessel
honestly way too much
i was scared of the bruises on my thighs
and i thought i wouldn’t see you again
“i’ll never see him again”
so i drove to walgreens
and the girl at the counter judged me,
and i bought a donut
you're some kind of cinderella boy
leaving a broken cigarette under my mattress
your birthmark left a stain on my eyelids and my hands
and i forgot to ask your name
Jul 6, 2014
Jul 6, 2014 at 3:05 PM UTC
i have
a birthmark
shaped like
a cloud
but then again
everything
is shaped
like a
cloud
Apr 12, 2014
Apr 12, 2014 at 10:54 PM UTC