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She has lost herself so deeply inside this broken mirror.  

But does she really want to find herself?  

So she keeps picking up the pieces  

And the “beauty” keeps maiming her.  

She learns to welcome the pain.  

  

A thousand eyes blink,  

lies behind each one of them.  

They watch her 

from the remnants of the broken mirror.  

  

“You’re already perfect!”  

thesay. 

“Are you okay?” 

She answers, “I’m fine! I want this!”  

Her smiles mask the pain. 

We know she’s not really fine.  

 

  

The scars on her body are still visible.  

But she just wants the pain   

to go away, away 

away. 

  

I don’t know if there’ll be a time where she looks into me   

and says, 

“I don’t need this.”  

“I’m already beautiful.”  

  

Dispersed amidst the floor inside each silver shard  

she had captured herself into this broken mirror.  

Mementos, mementos, mementos,  

But she wants to forget, forget 

forget. 

  

She treats herself so harshly.  

Is it my fault? 

Is the mirror unkind at times?