to be loved by an artist

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To be loved by an artist:

It always surprises me
how you are capable of painting every detail
of my exhausted face
onto a canvas.
You make me look so beautiful.
Perhaps that's the way you see me.
The way you paint my smiling face-
my cheeks looking red and full,
my eyes glimmering,
and my hair black and lustrous.
You even put down the
uncountable number of moles
that I have on my face.
And for a moment,
a thought crosses my mind,
"Does he paint her too?"
And once again, I feel a lump in my throat,
as my eyes swell up with tears.

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