Vanity Mask

Vanity is a drug 

I love it

And hate it

It consumes me

Pretty

Pretty

Thin

and 

Pretty

All the things I aspire to be

Yet I can't seem to reach them

I'm ugly

So I become uglier

With jealousy

Rotten jealousy

And a razor

Puckering my beautiful limbs

And purge

Just to be a little less heavy

Who cares?

I'll never be pretty enough

Never

Don't call me pretty

Until it's true

Don't tell me to get over it

Until you're behind my vanity mask.

Author's Note

Just something I whipped up...

Reviews

[Danielle Anatomyy]

I like the urgency in your poem. It's like the words were something you had held back for so long, they just fell off your tongue so naturally during writing this piece. The world is always condemning people. It's something I wish, as a society, we'd overcome, but everyone knows it's impossible. Whether your tall, or short, you are put down. If you're too skinny, you're made fun of for lacking curves, and if you're too heavy, you're made fun of for being "fat." It is all one big contradiction we'll never escape, and I think your poem grasps that very well. You should know, though, humanity's idea of normality isn't the one we should embrace. Everyone has their own personal style; along with size, appearance, and beliefs. Our beliefs are the only one of those we can change, and if we believe that we aren't beautiful, if we follow the influence the human race has bestowed upon us, we will just damn the generations after us to continue the same trend. We have to be confident in our imperfections and teach the future inhabitants of Earth it's okay to be different. It doesn't make you any less gorgeous.

[JC]

I sense that you are a strong minded and blunt person, you say it like it is with no regrets or apologies. Another great read here, making us see that we need to realize that our minds are not all the same, and we never know what is truly going on behind the mask.

[Blue Belle]

The emotion put into the poem wasn't a lot, but enough to understand how you might be feeling. Although, I understand pretty well about these thoughts and ideas, so I can connect to it. I love the message though that no one really knows how your feeling unless they've gone through what you are going through.

[Patrick O'Neil]

You alway whip up some interesting stuff. We all feel that, longing to be accepted for who we are and not just for what we look like, look at me i, hide behind a spider mask, but I think everyone has a mask of some sort.
Great write indeed.

[Ufi Auttorri ~ UfoAutho..]

Very nicely done. Tasty.

[Alisha Heistand]

This is amazing. I can relate, and having a work that speaks to others is the remarkable part of writing. "A word is just a word until you mean what you say" and that's true, because we can say what we want, but we all know that the inner beauty is what shines through. We just like to hide behind a mask once in a while. As always, a great job

[Brian Angeles]

the thing i love about this is that, beauty is just a word. True beauty is not on looks but o perspectives. Everyone has a soul. Each soul is shaped and colored different than each other. that's true beauty. Well done

[Death Girl]

I really love this. It is so realatable truly a fantastic write

[Simon Welsh]

All is vanity. Nice poem dear.

[Tarry Franck]

And you whipped it up quite well. I can relate to the razor bec I have those moments as well. Well penned