My features in the glass unerringly betray
A countenance ill-fated and ill-composed in its array,
Doomed by nature's whimsy or some genetic deceit
To bear the brand of the malformed and incomplete.
No sculptor's skilled chisel fashioned this grievous facade,
No artistry nor artifice its flaws could ever laud.
The genetic lottery to my loss was cast,
Decreeing my comeliness be forever outclassed.
What crime in past lives brought this curse as its due?
What karmic debt still clings to my soul's corpus blue?
An aesthetic Sisyphus doomed to heave scorn's stone,
Discrimination for attributes not self-sown.
While Plato sees the soul as beauty's primal state,
In fleshly fetters here my essence must navigate.
This mortal shell of ogresque and ill-starred form
Ensures all essence remains in shadow dorm.
No cosmetic art can redemption here effect,
Repair the slight of nature's careless neglect.
My role as nature's fool is cast without appeal,
No grandeur or genius this lowly guise may seal.
A countenance ill-fated and ill-composed in its array,
Doomed by nature's whimsy or some genetic deceit
To bear the brand of the malformed and incomplete.
No sculptor's skilled chisel fashioned this grievous facade,
No artistry nor artifice its flaws could ever laud.
The genetic lottery to my loss was cast,
Decreeing my comeliness be forever outclassed.
What crime in past lives brought this curse as its due?
What karmic debt still clings to my soul's corpus blue?
An aesthetic Sisyphus doomed to heave scorn's stone,
Discrimination for attributes not self-sown.
While Plato sees the soul as beauty's primal state,
In fleshly fetters here my essence must navigate.
This mortal shell of ogresque and ill-starred form
Ensures all essence remains in shadow dorm.
No cosmetic art can redemption here effect,
Repair the slight of nature's careless neglect.
My role as nature's fool is cast without appeal,
No grandeur or genius this lowly guise may seal.
