skin.

It's unforgiving. It won't and doesn't hide the fat or the muscles underneath.  Whatever is there, physically, skin cannot hide it. You can tan it, but it won't tone it. It's there, covering us, protecting our skeletons, revealing every physical flaw we have. And with it's physical transparency, it hides our souls.  The deepest and brightest joys perhaps providing the skin with some sort of joyful glow, the wretched and hidden soul-wounds perhaps causing it to have ill pallor. It it so easily reveals our physical imperfections, transparent to a fault. But when it comes to our souls, our hearts, our will to fight, it gives no clue and no cue to the common beholder an bystander. Incredible how something so transparent can be the see-through blanket we hide our souls behind.

Go forth and live y'all!
Xoxo lyd