Poems About Vanity by Top Critiquers

Insanity calls for a spiritual demise
Angels reject thy disease
Forgotten, they suffer
No shadow to take
For I am the god here to please
 
Apparent in riles  
Complacent in stellar
Lain place of valiant tease
Forsaking the measure
In search of self pleasure
Emboldened by the flair of the ease
 
Lay waste, their desires
let them singe in the fires
I am skillful at faking good deeds
forlorn, yet persuaded
To be masterfully jaded
Well versed to this imperfect scheme
 
Marked...

Jeremy's Christmas card's from Eliza.
It shows her naked by the tree.
He better hide it quick.

my soul weeps because you will never really know me
you won't come in close enough to love me in my sacredness
you make assumptions and put a scarlet letter on me
because no matter what your soul says
you come close enough just to spy on my pain

pick me up off the ground as you're running by
I guess I should be grateful
like it or not I've been watching you
if you think I don't fit with the mainstream you're right

you do because you put business man outfit and personality
and I'm sure that is legit
but you completely cut out...

I dreamed your boyfriend
beat a social worker half to death
and I didn't step in because
I didn't want to end up that shade of broken

And I hate that helplessness
that I couldn't stop a violent tirade
of jealousy
because your social worker
just happened to be a man
and your boyfriend
is the kind of crazy that sees threats
in outstretched hands

And you, you didn't do anything
because you never do anything
too busy looking in a mirror
making sure you're flawless
and perfect
while the world...