All Of The Ugly Too

I've been showing you the curated version

The highlight reel the carefully arranged

The side of me that photographs the nicest

The parts of me that don't require explaining

But lately something in me wants to risk it

Wants to show you what I keep behind the frame

Wants to know if you could love the whole of

Not just the palatable

But all of it the same

So here it is

The unedited

The part I usually hide

Can you handle this

The all of it

The outside and inside

All of the ugly too

The fear the doubt the 2am confused

All of the ugly too

The stubborn and the scarred and overused

I'm not just the good days

Not just the easy love

I come with all the weather

I come with all the rough

Can you love all of the ugly too

Because I'm tired of performing

For the one I want to give my whole life to

All of the ugly too

I've watched love dissolve before

When someone saw the full unfiltered version

Watched people rearrange their feelings

The moment real replaced the pretty person

So I learned to keep the messy parts interior

I learned to present the livable and light

But living half-known is a kind of loneliness

That follows you into the middle of the night

What I'm asking for is dangerous

I know the risk of being fully seen

But what I'm offering is everything

Not just the beautiful

The whole of what I mean

Every contradiction

Every fear I haven't named

All of the ugly too

And all the love

That comes the same

All of the ugly too

Still here

All of the ugly

Still love

Still me

Still all of it

For you