A colleague once read this and told me it added an interesting dynamic if every time I've written 'I am enough' you read it as a question. So it's up to you as the reader. Would you like the character to be questioning herself, or stating this she is enough. Try reading it twice, both ways, and see which you prefer. Leave a comment and let me know, I'm interested to see :)
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I am enough.
Standing here, with the clothes on my back, flaws in my genes and words on my tongue.
I am enough, no matter what anyone else decides.
I determine my reactions to the life around me.
My empathy, experience and knowledge combine together as my armour to charge through.
Armour that gives me the confidence to stand alone against the world.
Alone, without needing anyone to catch me.
I am enough.
I am not a part of a whole, I am not unfinished, I am not part complete.
Other people do not complete me, they are the glue that seals the cracks in my personality,
And trust me there are many.
And there must be, for I am here trying to convince myself that I can survive anything.
Adapt to the world and I will always be enough no matter what happens because I am strong.
But the tiny thought in the back of my head, gives me a hard stare and a teasing grin.
That voice believes that without you I would crumble.
That because you've seen me armourless that you can destroy me from the inside out.
Like a saboteur, traitor, espionage.
This voice escapes at night, free from the cage of daily life and roams through my head,
And I am simply trapped in the doubt it brings.
YOU ARE READING
A collection of thoughts
PoetryPoetry written by a 21 year old. Each chapter a new poem, probably unrelating to the previous. They are in chronological order of writing them though, which is interesting if you reading them all together. #12 Poetry #56 Self Realisation
