hiii i'm zephy! i'm an aspiring singer, poet, and VA! any thoughts or pieces of advice you have for me are appreciated! anywho enjoy! <3 IMAGE IS NOT MINE!!
BEFORE YOU SCROLL: this poem is very raw and it's focused on self image, double identity, and has an imagery of peeling skin so if any of this makes you uncomfortable please do not read this poem. NOTES FOR JUDGE(S): mainly artistic decisions - whole poem is lower-cased - I do NOT have correct punctuation everywhere - unusual spacing - / xxxx / is for italicized words/phrases and i think that's it for things that i could get points off for are you 100% sure you read the part above? (Poem here) i hope you know that if you tie a bow around yourself, it will hide how broken down the box that you've shaped around yourself truly is and maybe you'll be considered pretty. in the morning, from the moment you awake, you tie that bow around yourself. up and down, all around, and paste that smile on your face. happy huh? you want to break you want to tear that glue off your face but you don't. won't. you know how much it means to them. so you refuse; refuse to let your true colors show. in the day you're at school dying to just get away. you're tired, annoyed, you want to go home. you long to tear down the cracks of peeling skin to feel the agony every. nerve. shot. but you don't. you fill in the cracks of skin with more glue again ensuring your smile doesn't f a d e a w a y. at night you're in your room hiding again. you're exhausted from social interaction, you just want a break. before you realize, you're picking at your skin the spots where your smile has been glued mother calls you down to dinner /i'm not hungry/, you say. even when the glue is gone and it's just you you keep peeling away like an addiction a medicine to release all of the pain. until it's midnight. you stare at your frown in the mirror; your sore mouth, dark bags under your eyes, and you wonder how it all happened. you fall asleep eventually you don't remember what time it was or even what time you woke up but this cycle repeats. over and over and over again. consuming you eternally.
