Stronger

Here’s to the girl in the mirror, trapped in

A world where perfection is expected;

Mistakes add up, irreversible sins;

Dissonant chords analysed, corrected

 

To fit the continuous harmony

That I forced myself into, and cannot

Evade, without the loss or agony

Experienced when leaving my landlocked

 

Mind, surrounded by voices that I silence

To crown my own, so it can thrive on all

The false certainties, saved in my conscience,

That poison, whispering at me to fall…

 

That girl in the mirror is no longer

My reflection: she came back stronger.