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I’ve changed myself,

but I’ve stayed the same

broken mirror

the image changed

but the inside remains the same

the glass is cracked and the pieces fall

an image tattered

never again will you tell me what is beautiful

beauty is only skin deep,

and I live beneath the skin

if u need see the real me

cut me from navel to chops

as I bleed freely

u shall see me

my heart beats like any other man

and my soul sheds tears from the pain it has endured

Don't judge me

for I can not bare to be judged

just love me for what I am

nothing less

nothing more

My heart bleeds

for every crack it has endured never fully healed

nor will it ever

nor would I ever want it to

The reminder is needed

just like the memories

to show me what I've been through,

and I like me the way I am

and I wouldn't change a thing

not the past

not the present

but the future is an ever-changing thing

I won’t stop myself from being who I am,

because there is no way I ever could

Yesterday’s pain

today's misery

tomorrow will wash it all away

and in this broken mirror

image tattered

reality torn

lies my seven years of bad luck

tripled for being born,

but life is just what you make it

bad luck can be reversed

A curse can be broken

it's all in belief

reality and fantasy

take a look inside me

believe in what you believe

Walk a mile in my shoes if you think it makes you know me

I'll walk a mile in your eyes

to see you hold me in those arms

take away the pain

but in our reflection it is gone

In this mirror we are whole

we are what we are

not what another may see

even if it's twisted and distorted

we our what's through the looking glass

be it a white rabbit

or a queen of hearts

and the blood still drips through the cracks of an unmended heart

and leaves a puddle of lost love upon the floor,

i'd give any thing to find love,

and not let it escape,

but if it was not to be,

I must let it leave.

I'm bound,

but not by a rope that u can see

my noose only a fading reality

I'm gagged,

but only by words that I don't know how to speak

I'm blind,

but only because I closed my eyes,

because I'm afraid to see

but I must open them

because if I spare myself the pain

I spare myself the joy

with eyes closed I can see within

with eyes open I see what's in the mirror

and even though sometimes the image does scare me

I learn to live with one eye open

so I can see with in me

to the real me and also gaze upon the world

so they can see that it doesn't

mater the catch phrase upon my shirt

I'm the same man on the inside even if the outside does not show the hurt



Cx Patterson