Beneath The Rot

He didn't just take off my clothes

He stripped away the skin from my flesh

Like the petals of a rose

All the way down to my bones

He loves me

He loves me not?

Until he uncovered a part of me

I never knew existed

He found a spark inside

What I thought was nothing but rot

But it was something that only he could see

Beneath the good, the bad, the ugly

The issues and imperfections

Yet he still kissed me all over

And he said that he loved me

Showed me that he knew the same pain

He was built the same