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what I could never see

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You would say...
"you're beautiful
perfect
wonderful"
while looking straight at me.

I told you it was a sin to lie, no matter how beautiful the mouth that whispered them were.

You repeated the tired rhythm and I always brushed you away. I never knew how much that killed you inside until it was too late. You tried everything to get me to see me the way you do. I covered up the mirrors and turned away from your crying, pleading eyes. I bled out my pain, creating the scars I felt worthy of. After so many years of being pushed down, and only having you, one in a million telling me otherwise, I had lost my ability to believe I was anything but worthless, pathetic, and ugly. I can finally see now, you were only saying what you saw and what I had to see. Too bad it's too late


or is it?
There was a girl named A€nnie
She had a very pretty face
And not the way you would think
So let me see if I can try to explain it
She had a smile
It could light up the room
And if she moved it'd be moving in you
But she wasn't like a magazine
She was just plain Jane
And her name was Annie

She never looked in the mirror
She never liked what she would see
And even if I tried to tell her
She never listened to a word I'd say
She always wanted what she never had
But never had what she needed so badly
Someone telling her she was fine
And that's not right
And its why I'm saying

Annie don't be shy here
Annie don't just lie there
Looks don't make the world go round
But it comes around
Annie don't be shy here
Annie please don't cry here
I always have to stop myself
Cause you're beautiful

I didn't know if I could tell her
I didn't know if I could make her see
She didn't need to find her beauty
She didn't need to find a way to show me
They took her moments of feeling alive
And made them moments of dying inside
She needed someone to scream her name
To take her pain and its why I screaming

Annie don't be shy here
Annie don't just lie there
Looks don't make the world go round
But it comes around
Annie don't be shy here
Annie please don't cry here
I always have to stop myself
Cause you're beautiful

And Annie you are the one sight my eyes never tire of
Its like I cannot get enough of you
Annie you are the one song left in my symphony
Like you were made for me

Annie don't be shy here
Annie don't just lie there
Looks don't make the world go round
But it comes around
Annie don't be shy here
Annie please don't cry here
I always have to stop myself
Cause you're beautiful


Annie; Safetysuit

More of you and me...you've been spilling out of me a lot lately.
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chaseawaythedark's avatar
Absolutely stunning poem; I love it <3