TRAGIC Poem: My Mascara, by Hannah Teitelman

I wear mascara every single day
Ask if I’m alright
You don’t have to
Just look at the black smudges on my face

What a familiar stench
The inky black chemical stench
My mascara is flaking off again
And melting into my ghastly face

I could live 1000 lives
And I will never be alright
I used to be alright
What happened?

My mascara
Ink black mascara
The shining tears from in my eyes
Compound together make a pool of dark and light

My mascara
Ink black mascara
It’s off my face, it’s off my face
It’s in a pool swallowing me, there’s a pool swallowing me?

The pool is a void
I drown from within
Void conjured from my very own tears
But can’t forget the inky contents from my signature golden tube

WOAH
When you hit the bottom the void lightens up
I think I might be about to die
So now I go and fly real high

I’m out of the void