When she looked in the mirror, she did not
see her own reflection but she saw image they
saw and she became afraid. She was afraid of
not knowing who she was so she began giving herself away to others in hope of gaining
an identity. In giving she sought to gain love
and affection but instead gained heartaches
and disappointments. She sought to gain
acceptance and respect but instead gained
brokeness and rejection. So she continued to
give. But the the more she gave the less she
had until there was nothing left for her to
give. And there she stood; fragmented and
broken into pieces for she had reached her
end, she had given all of herself to others.
It was then that she began to realize that it
was she who allowed herself to be devalued
and shamed. It was she who allowed her virtue to leave and her beauty to be hidden from
her. She had become so afraid of not being
loved and aceped that she let others make her
into something that she was not. She accepted who they said she was and not the woman
who she knew she was within. She was so use
to looking at herself through the eyes of others that she could not see her own reflection
in the mirror.
17/F-STYLE CHICAGO