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the reflection

August 10, 2015
By Krist.M. SILVER, Redding,
Krist.M. SILVER, Redding,
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Favorite Quote:
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
Emily Dickinson


words are just words

or so they try to say

but the words are names

written across my face

too fat, too tall, too into cartoons

too smart, too dumb, and too ugly, too.

my whole life I have been too much or too little

so that's how I feel

never good enough for anything

at birth I had the bad deal

and I tell them not to label me

because no matter what they say

I am the one looking into the mirror

so I know my own pain

and every day I see a girl that doesn't feel like me.

because as long as I don't see her

I think I'm very pretty

and as long as I don't look at my reflection

I see the me from inside

but as soon as I pass by a mindow

very little, that me starts to die

and I tell the reflected girl she is ugle

we cannot hide the truth.

look at your eyes and your hair

this is the outside you

so everyday I hate myself a little at a time

it all started with a few words

and a few names that weren't mine.


The author's comments:

I always thought to myself that I was pretty. but then people started to be mean, I joined the internet and was called fat and ugly. my nose is too big and my skin is uneven. no matter how confident I was, I broke down every day little by little. I fell into a depression. now, I look in the mirror and I can see all that is wrong with me. instead of leaving off with I am ugly, I see my flaws and then I accept them. I am fine with my skin, it is the skin I was given and I can't change that fact. I am not mutated, there is nothing wrong with me. I am just not flawless. I accept that and move on.


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