You’ve seen me without my face,<\/p>\n
Without my lipstick and my mistakes,<\/p>\n
Blemish rests upon these bones,<\/p>\n
Wearing nothingness:<\/p>\n
I relish upon my throne.<\/p>\n
You accept my get-up,<\/p>\n
But would much rather do without it,<\/p>\n
Experiencing my shield,<\/p>\n
The one of foundation and powder.<\/p>\n
Clear judgment exudes through,<\/p>\n
What would I do without them?<\/p>\n
Without you?<\/p>\n
I could not stand the sight of my own face,<\/p>\n
Without wearing my shield,<\/p>\n
I could not amount to the myriad of beauty I desired.<\/p>\n
You are my make-up,<\/p>\n
Your words I wear upon my skin,<\/p>\n
Your truth complements the beauty within.<\/p>\n
How you treasure the way my eyes gleam:<\/p>\n
No shadow to hide them from the sun,<\/p>\n
How my lips pout candidly like candied caramel apple slices:<\/p>\n
Wearing nothing for fun.<\/p>\n
You love the way I look,<\/p>\n
You love me natural and nude.<\/p>\n
To whom can I be compared: “No one.” You soothe.<\/p>\n
I fall prey to your elixir,<\/p>\n
This potion: your sweet speech,<\/p>\n
Compliments: cunning, leaving me in complacency.<\/p>\n
Ultimately leave me feeling un-kissed of your approval until tomorrow’s morn,<\/p>\n
Seeing something out of place upon my face: wearing my favorite shade of scorn.<\/p>\n
There’s something I feel you see,<\/p>\n
Something I kvetch over endlessly,<\/p>\n
Embarrassed to show me,<\/p>\n
But, bare is what you want me to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
You’ve seen me without my face, Without my lipstick and my mistakes, Blemish rests upon these bones, Wearing nothingness: I relish upon my throne. You accept my get-up, But would much rather do without it, Experiencing my shield, The one of foundation and powder. Clear…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1805,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions\/1805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}