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Beauty Through Broken Glass
I am beautiful
Someone once said
Me?
As I laid in bed that night I thought
Me?
Beautiful?
They didn't mean it
What do they see?
It can't be me
I'm ugly
Useless
Others blindfolded muses
When all I see are flaws
Walls cover up the real me
Please don't flatter me
Your words don't matter to me
The compliments are mindless chatter to me
Don't waste your breath.
They say that beautiful is such a strong word
But stronger is heard by herds of young and younger girls
Lacking confidence
The publicized nonsense that rings their ears
Because if their true beauty would only echo the realization that they are not only beautiful, but beauty-full
They are musical instruments being played by society
Harsh harps being plucked by the wrong hands, releasing twangs instead of the wonderful melodies they were meant to be
Because in reality
They need to see that I AM THE ONLY ME
And that I...
Am the definition of beauty.
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I wrote this piece about girls and women who struggle to find their true beauty, because in today's society it is so hard to see your worth and beauty. I wrote the poem in "two parts" so to say. The first part is the perspecitve of a women and how she struggles feeling confident in not only her beauty, but the realization of her beauty through other people's eyes. The second part of the poem is the perspective of a woman who sees beauty for what it really is, and how she has realized that finding beauty in yourself is what is important in life.