The Perfect Imperfection

Behind my smile

is a truth;

a story.

A story that none of you will ever understand.

Look past my smile 

and I am broke.

My life is but a contradiction..

The perfect imperfection..

Look at me and I will smile,

make a joke and I will laugh,

but look a little closer

and you'll see a little more..

See the words that quote my life

scarred across my wrist,

Lies..

Hate..

Waste..

Love..

and more that I can't say..

See stitches attached to arteries

and bones that never healed,

judge me now; for all you do

I'm just another 'fake'.

So to all who judge a life unknown

just let me say one thing..

Go f**k yourself, you piss me off

you're f*****g immature,

you do not know a f*****g thing

you don't f*****g know at all.

You do not know recovery

from being hooked on every drug,

and you do not know the feeling

when you overcome it all..

But for you you'll never know that

you'll just see a scar or track,

we overcame a nightmare

just to put up with your crap.

Our mistakes may scar our bodies

but they cannot scar our heart,

if you judge us by our scars

then you miss the biggest part.

For we are our lives, 

most perfect imperfection.

Author's Note

Just venting about people who judge youth about their past. It seriously pisses me off. So I just had to write and this was the outcome. Not great but its the truth.

Reviews

[FallenHeroXx]

So very thought provoking my friend... I must say that I absolutely loved every single word!

Good s**t man. Good s**t

[AchingAlexandra]

I really really loved this . It was absolutely wondrous .

[stars are far]

This was AMAZING :)

[Neva Flores Smith - Cha..]

Coming from one who has had to reach up to touch bottom most of her adult life, I understand this poem. I understand how people judge. We are imperfect creatures, perfect in our imperfection and I salute you.

[xXxCynicalWarsxXx]

It's an amazing write, and truth be told, i can relate. Every adult I know (i.e parents and Loud Mouth) judge me by my past. Never looking at the present, just the past. And then they tell me to forget about the past, but they can't?

Anyway, this was good, and venting is good. The outcome of the poem itself is holding fast to the truth of reality. nice write. I love it.

10/10

[Coyote Poetry]

A amazing poem. Your words are true. Our imperfections make us different. I believe it is a good thing. Be a boring world if we were all the same. Scars give us integrity and tattoos to show the world we had lived. Thank you for the outstanding poetry.
Coyote

[Alexander Emberson]

You've done a swell job at capturing emotion and laying it out for the reader to pick up on. Nicely done. Keep it up!