unfiltered
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If the world were to end tomorrow
I’d spend my last hours with the universal language.
If I lost my hearing tomorrow
I’d spend today
Listening to Forever and Always by Parachute,
Smears, smudges hide my face
In the dusty reflections of the mirror
With shaking hands I can place
The nose, the hair, the eyes
But in a glimpse they're chased
From my tentative tries
Free
From everything I used to be
Re-writing my history
Picture by picture I’m finding me
I’m alright
My hair plain brown, my face aged with time
Music is my voice
Lyrics are my words
A mermaids rejoice
In a broken world
My infectious laughter pollutes the air
Jumping in imagination
With love and hope everywhere
Creating inspiration
Like the stars effortlessly twinkle against the roaring engines of travelling planes through the night
She is
in her little red car and it is
Friday night, so she is
laughing and the music is
loud.
Next Friday night
she is crying and
she doesn't know exactly why
Flawed.
I'm flawed.
Without filters, society calls me flawed.
It's true, I'm flawed.
But what's it to society?
Everything has flaws.
My face occasionally blemished.
I used to be covered in filters
They draped my body like exotic cloths
I smiled when other people smiled
Laughed at other peoples' jokes
Lived other peoples' lives
But I never lived my own
Through the lens, you see is a smiling girl.
On the screen, she stares back at you with glistening green eyes.
Everything about her screams "happy!"
Everything you read makes you smile,
They say not to depend on a first true love.
"You're too young!"
"Focus on yourself."
"Your future is too bright. Don't waste it on him."
My first true love gave me everything.
Without all the filters, what am I?
I am an independant women, strong willed, but yeilding
I am out spoken, out going, with just a touch of gentleness
I am Confident in my abilities, but not prideful
I am a blank canvas,
I am unique,
I am a soul of wonder.
No person,
No object,
No filter
Shall change who I am.
I am dreams,
I am optimism,
I am a hopeless romantic.
