nakedly

If you
stripped
yourself naked,
and stood in front of
a
mirror,
would you like what you saw? Or at least
accept
it?
How many times
would you move so that
the angle
became
you?
Out of the shadows. Maybe some indirect
lighting.
Oh, for
an
air brush.
But what if
instead of
arms &
legs & skin & boniness (we can’t see
(our bones,
(only our
(angularities)
we could see
our
minds &
hearts & souls?
Would we
be able to move & adjust to better the picture,
view
or
reflection?
Could we handle
the
truth, Jack? Is this why
we
wear
clothes?
Another layer
of
skin?
To protect us not from one another, but
from
ourselves?