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Altar of the Goddess of Disfigured Love

Where does love go
when it’s not pretty,

when not received with wide open arms?

Awkward love
Nervous love
Misfit love
Love that comes out wrong
 all mumbles and sideways glances.

Love wounded over time
so it doesn’t know how to come out
and when it does
it finds no home.

Misunderstood love
Unrequited love.

Love
 yes disfigured
   yet love none the less.

Place your love offerings
 poorly wrapped
   with a lopsided bow and crumpled, stained paper
before her altar.
The altar of the goddess of disfigured love.

Offer these sore gifts
 obtuse and tattered
before her
 on her altar
knowing she will
 at last
be the one who will
 who can
accept this love.

She will hold our clumsy love
with warmth and understanding
  and a tear of gratitude in her eye.

Offer your love to the goddess of disfigured love.
She with the brown skin
black hair
red lips.
More beautiful than any of the other love goddesses.

She receives
 accepts
   understands.

Love trapped
haunted and hunted
rejected and unwanted
misunderstood and misrepresented.

Bring your love
 which had no home
to the altar of the goddess of disfigured love.
Bring your love
 with head held low
and the goddess of disfigured love
 will cup your face,
   lift you up
and the unrequited ache will be soothed
and you will know your love is holy and matters.

 - Jose Enciso

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