Snap

Where do you find beauty

In the crystal tower

Where androgyny rules

A picture snap of broken glass

The illusion painted & shaped

To be no longer real

I have no desire to be corrupted

The muse of the shallow

Exists nickel plated artists

Searching for beauty in image alone

High gloss sheen

Disguise the flaws

Or are they in the depths

Beyond the flesh we see

Why must we aspire – to be like them

In a endless sea of similarity

We shuffle – Brainwashed into compliance

Our minds – no longer our own

But what the few have preordained

To be the truth – To be the norm

That in their eyes – will make us human

Lessons Learned

Taught me how to laugh
And how to cry a sea of tears
How to defend myself in the worst of ways
Shutting the other out by keeping my distance
Taught me dignity to stand alone
Through a multitude of humiliations
You didnt what me to know your ways
Your true face through all the lies
Locked me out - Left me alone
Even when your were here
You kept your secrets well
And when you were here body and soul
I felt your stings of constant degradation
Wore me down and rebuilt me up
In your derelict , warped image
Now I know the real you
Better than I know myself
Now you have departed
And I'm no longer alone just broken