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My Life as a Book (Free verse) by molly
My life is a book
tattered pages bound by
a string of frayed ends,
Stained with the stigma
from spastic ink-spill
But you read it so eagerly
so amorously,
like a child with newfound treasure,
as if some value actually existed
within these mangled pages
You held up a mirror to show me
the beauty I possessed,
the beauty I never saw,
a rarefied reflection in your eyes
But perhaps I never saw this beauty
because it was never there
and only began to shine,
the dwarf star metamorphosing into the supernova,
the day you first kissed me.
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