Grey

Deep pain live underneath

Every therapy appointment,
She took off her skin.
The zipper
Down the spine
Slowly traces down.
She peels her mask off.
Flesh hitting the carpet.
Beneath her costume
Was an ugly, hopeless body.

Grey and black.
Skin tightly against the bones.
Scars and bruises.
Mostly around the heart.
Her hair fell
Every bat of her eyelids.

Sometimes
The doctor healed her.
Other times,
Old scars reemerged.

After an hour,
She would zip
Herself up.
Her tan skin hiding secrets.
Her brown wig.
The reconstruction of her face.
The chemicals she slapped on
To make her eyes glow.

She was not fake.
She was scared.

Reviews

[Graham Plantagenet]

Dark. Is this how you see yourself? How you feel? I want to hug you. An odd gesture perhaps, but that is my empathy.

[wordman]

wow,scary situation...............