Shedded Skin

Can’t you see how grotesque I am?

How can you look at me?

How do you bear to touch me?

I search your eyes for disgust and all I find is love

I watch to see if your skin crawls at my touch

Instead, you reach out, enveloping me

You sully your perfection within me

Angel’s kisses bestowed on unworthy flesh

This beastly flesh that contains me

Battle scarred and worn

Familiar to many but cherished by only one

When the madness hits I long to run

To hide myself away

But even within those dark, warm folds of oblivion

I crave the redemption of your touch

The glow in your eyes that allows me beauty

The sacred breath that speaks only words of love

The hands capable of soothing my fears,

and bringing me to the point of ecstacy and beyond

and of holding me down against my rages

I crave your laughter and regret your tears

With you beside me, my love

I can shed this  hated skin

Show the world the beauty you see within