of beauty

bold beauty knows
she’s beauty-

needs not my clouded
eye to feel worthy

i’ll preserve my
prism sight

for plain cerebral
girl of plight

turn away,
though she might

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vanity

plucked last hair

leaning close-

think.

much of life
wasted-

standing at
sink.

warrior inside
never freed-

to fight own
fight,

bleed,

fall to knee,

turn-

flee.