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another poem....and more confusion.....
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Is there a reason?
For all this?
Is there a point?
The frills
The lace
The concealing silk?

What exactly is it?
Why can’t I see,
You show,
What’s really there?
There are to many bows
Veils, sparkles
Morphed truths
Lies
To decipher what’s
There
What it was
Anymore

Why do you have to
Cover it up?
Dress it up?
Make it ‘presentable’?
I don’t understand.
Do think u
Can honestly
Make it pretty?
Make it neat?
And tidy?

Why must it be
That way anyway?
Do you think I care
If it’s pretty?
If it won’t hurt
My eyes?
My heart?
I don’t.
And I’m confused,
So explain and
Tell me please
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