OPPOSITE

 

If you are cold, see yourself in the sun

In the sun, see yourself in the shade

In the shade, see yourself in the light

In the light, see yourself in darkness

In darkness, see yourself brightness

In brightness, see  yourself in dullness

In dullness, see yourself in brilliance

In brilliance, see yourself as ordinary

As ordinary, see yourself in the unusual

In the unusual, see yourself in common

In your commonness, see yourself as noble

As noble, see yourself as humble

As humble, see yourself as proud

As proud, see yourself as spiritless

As spiritless, see yourself as holy

As holy, see yourself

As yourself, see them

As them, see you

My original Face

 

If Picasso drew me

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My eyes would not align

My nose would snub

My lips would find their volume

One ear would hang lower than the other


He would reduce my face

To its original form

A single unbalanced, unending line 

Forehead to chin, lip to ear

An exact imperfect reflection


No amount of make-up

No Zoom-fixing my image

Would make my face more lovely

More seen and understood

Than that rolling ballpoint across white paper

If Picasso drew me

Original me would be hung in a gallery

Where others, perhaps thousands, would wonder

At the his unique simple ability

To see all of me in my face