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Wed, 03/04/2015 - 17:51 -- alknipp

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Fuck your filters

Fuck your animal tested makeup

Fuck your world wide social media.

#NoMakeup #RealMe #SelfieSunday

 

YOU tell me to watch my mouth

I’ll tell you to watch me kick your ass out the door.

I’m just a mediocre person with prodigious dreams and a mind not set in reality.

 

These filters help us create who we want to be

You take that away?

We are left staring at our empty palms

configuring our place in society.

#IWokeUpLikeThis #NoFilter

 

Why we do hate on people that say what they mean when we are thinking the same thing, just too childish to admit it.

Why ARE we trying to change what we look like when we were #BornThisWay ?

 

I don’t need 20 different pictures to find one BEAUTIFUL one,

I’ll take a look in the mirror and I’ll understand.

I’ll take the pictures

and I’ll write the words for what they truly are:

A MESS

But life is a mess.

A mess I want to live in

 

I’ll curse like a sailor

I’ll wear what I want

I’ll stand up for what I believe

Because no matter who I am

No matter how many pictures are taken

No matter what trouble I get into

I’ll come back to being this person

Because when you take away the skin

There’s no beauty to hide behind

There’s no longer an illusion

 

Your insides will spill out

You will be uncovered

And you will be

STRIPPED

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This poem is about: 
Me
Our world

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