denying my weaknesses
even now
as I peel
* * *
ascribing the heavenly
reflection
I’ve sought only loveliness
or brilliance
less stable than marble
guilty, all the same
to be
uniformly repulsed by deformity
truly
transitory beauty cloaks
impending hideousness
of the flesh
though I’ve been so famished for affection
and tenderness
to be blinded
in my transgressions
as by a blister
* * *
who would not doubt, considering all the evidence
unanswered
in lonesome infidelity
without an angelic trance
on waterless ground
Poem copyright 2016 by Jnana Hodson
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