i have asked you

indirectly

to see worth

in my being.

i have asked you

indirectly

to see who i am.

who i truly am

in hopes of

love reaching

the surface of

your heart.

but i cannot

ask you to see

what you will not

allow yourself to.

so i shall see myself

by myself.

"

"Oh darling, how could you ruin something so beautiful?" she said.

I looked her in the eye, "I was never beautiful. Tragedy isn't beautiful. Damaged isn't beautiful. What's beautiful is perfection. Perfection that does not live within nor on me. Therefore, I am anything but beautiful."

"

"

"Well that's impossible, everyone is fallible."

I looked at him and smiled, "Including you and I."

He looked puzzled for a second as he heard the pause in my sentence.

"But the difference between you and I is that every time you made a mistake, I forgave you. I always forgave you. I made one mistake and you forgotten my existence."

"