I Would Have Loved You

if only you had been better

By artist , credit to Patricia Carmichael of P.M. Artist Studio for a photo of the frost overlay.

I would have loved you more
had you been a different child.

If only your skin
could have been
a lighter color

Had your lips
not been so full,
Were your hips
under control,

your hair not
so dark and curly
if your eyes
were a clear blue…

All that brown
looked dirty to me.
You could have been
more clean.

Had your smell
been more pleasant
and your wildness
better tamed,

I would have loved you.I wanted to.

By artist credit Patricia Carmichael of P.M. Artist Studio for a photo of the frost overlay.

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