The Money We Spend on Mascara

Have you ever considered the money we spend on mascara?

The thoughts we spend on our outside

I don’t want them to see that pimple there

Or I hate my color hair

Although it’s fun to wear sparkly lipgloss and curl my hair

I wish I didn’t care 

I wish I had lashes that flutter and hair that flips

I wish I had pink shiny lips

Worrying about what I look like on the outside

What others see

Sometimes it feel like I’m not pretty enough

Without all that shiny stuff

But 

that’s only when I have forgotten to consider

The ripples in the water

Or the wrinkles in a leaf

The long limbs of a willow tree

Beauty isn’t perfect and that’s ok 

Because that’s what makes it beautiful

That’s what makes you.

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