A Poem I Wrote Quite Recently

If I Didn’t Have a Face”
by: Patrick Ian Moore

What would I do, if I didn’t have a face
What would I have instead, if that were the case
Would I have the front of a skeleton head
That’s actually called a skull
With flesh and ears on the side
Holes for eyes and a hole for a nose
Here’s hoping that it don’t decompose
And a bit of a chin and a skeleton grin
And a little bit of skin way up there
Topped off with my little bit of hair
Do you think that’d be the case
If I didn’t have a face
Or
Would there be a blank, featureless sheet of skin
Where there had been a face before, right above the chin
Blank like a sheet of paper that is empty, new, and fresh
With ears on the side and hair on the top
But just smooth and blank face flesh
No eyes at all and no kind of nose
Much less risk it would decompose
But how would the air get in
Without a nose or a skeleton grin
Or a normal grin you can’t breathe your chin
What if that were the case
Life is weird when you have no face
But
If the face part was smooth and blank
Maybe I couldn’t breathe
But the other thing I think about
Is what would be underneath
There’d be a skull I guess there would
Could you call it a skull maybe you could
If it had no holes
No holes for eyes no hole for nose
Or just a big blank chunk of bone
Like a big white bony stone
Maybe that would be the case
If I didn’t have a face