Unfilled beauty

Debra Reay
Feb 13, 2022

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She reels at false expectations

Failing to live up to yours

Why — she may ask

Why now is this unfilled

Beauty so flawless, yet

She is made up of the

Guilt you embedded and

The hatred you bestowed upon her

Her beauty unseen by you —

By herself, in a mirror of emptiness

Where nothing is real

Behind her eyes lays desperation

Begging for her flawless beauty

To be seen and allow her own

Expectations be less in perfection

And more in unfilled beauty

Seen behind a smokescreen

When she sees this beauty

This perfection —

She can become her own

Master of oneself and

Her own champion —

Free

Photo Credit:Carol Oliver Unsplash

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Debra Reay
Debra Reay

Written by Debra Reay

Writer, Poet and survivor of childhood abuse! Author of poem's~A Child Unloved, Soul Destroyed and more recently, The little girl in yellow bows.

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