Love me for who I am

And not what they want me to be

Not what you see on those TV screens

Love me for my flaws and my so called insecurities

What’s wrong or what’s right

Justified by corporate magazines

Love me for my mind

As if you were blind from my physicality

While I hold on to my breath as I squeeze into these jeans

Cause right now

You love me only for my thick dark hair

My straight white teeth

Or my tiny physique

But in years to come – my skin will wrinkle

And my eyes won’t twinkle

My hair will thin out and turn to grey

My teeth will fall out and be replaced

But I hope you’ll still find beauty in me

I hope you’ll still love me for me

For the sounds of my laughter

And believe in this clique of happily ever after

Love me for the way I am

And not just what you see

Cause this skin that covers my organs

Will tarnish and decease

But as my appearance worn out,

My mind will only grow

These bright thoughts imprinted will be so powerful

In the end, I will beam sunrays

And nothing will stand my way

No matter what others may say

See the truth about beauty

It’s not just what you see

It’s never the clothes I wear to cover my skin

It’s never the makeup I wear to hide within

It’s never what you see – but everything I hide

It’s my biggest fears or the way that I cry

To my biggest truth to every lie

The truth about beauty

Is the flaws we often cover

Concealed deep under – waiting to be discovered

The truth about beauty

Is that it lies within all of us

Love me for me