Appearance

She was loved In the morning she got up, As she did every morning, Applied the lipstick that covered her swollen lips, She applied the blush, The blush that hid the scars that wounded her She remembered how she was loved When she put on her gold eye shadow, The eye shadow that covered her grief, The grief that they didn’t see Was she so loved? She applied the mascara The mascara that hid the tears, The tears that wanted to flow from her eyes like a river Did they love her? She combed her dark hair The hair, it was as dark as the nights sky She put on her jeans Then the top that went with it No they didn’t understand. So she went to them that day She smiled and was loved again But with her smile she cried She smiled and hid her ocean of pain They didn’t see, just loved Her cloud of torment, was not visible The makeup, the clothes, the smile It was all there, just as any other day They loved They loved as much as always. Because she was tall As tall as the highest tower To them she was real But she was an actress in both worlds In her own and theirs as well Today she dressed for her part in theirs And left no trace of the other As she smiled Because she was loved