I Hide My Beauty Well
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I hide my beauty well
My baggy sweatshirt
A cloak of invisibility
Protecting me
From being seen
For beneath it
I am a silence
Oppressive, deafening, overbearing
Fragile, delicate, fractured
Even the smallest whisper
An intrusion
I hide my beauty well
My unruly hair
A rat's nest
Hiding me
From being seen
Though beneath it
I am a melody
Shifting, pulsing, straining
Encompassing, feeling, evoking
A song yearning to be heard
And danced to
I hide my beauty well
My boxy glasses
A mask of deception
Keeping me
From being seen
But beneath them
I am a galaxy
Crashing, destroying, colliding
Spinning, creating, shining
A star burning as brightly
As any other