Humility: a poem

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Courtesy of Shayla Hickerson, Humility, 2017

I stood before you, naked.
My clothes found refuge at my feet.
And I wondered if I should be humiliated
With the odd angles at which my body curved
Inwards and out.
You found my shyness cute.

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