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This Is Me
Looking in the mirror
Emotions run wild
Hurt.
Pain.
Fear.
Invading my thoughts
My mind consumed in a single moment
One look in the mirror
My life turned upside-down
My confidence plummeted
My heart dropped
My eyes filled with tears
I became trapped
One person
One notion
Changed everything
Perfect picture burned
My reflection became my enemy
Confidence drowned out by fear
Happiness melted into loneliness
Put up walls
But once they crumbled
All repressed memories
All bad experiences
Flooded in
Time stood still
Everything fell silent
Finally
At peace
A shell of my bubbly self faded into an abyss
Farther and farther
Maybe I won’t get it back
Maybe I’m lost forever
No repeated in my head
So many times
It lost all meaningl
I needed to find myself
To feel good as I am
Not as what someone wants me to be
From that day on
I realized
This is me
Take it or leave it
But no matter what you do
I know that I am good enough
For you
But more importantly for me
I wrote this poem during a drak time in my life where I wanted nothing but to be left alone. As a way to escape, I would write, and somewhere along the way, I wrote this.