He told me not to look into mirrors after he broke up with me
He knew how much I hated myself
But it wasn’t all self hatred that made me not want to look into mirrors
It was the world telling me I wasn’t enough
And now he was doing the same.
Eventually, I grew to love looking at myself in a mirror
I finally didn’t hear the world, I heard me
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The Things I Never Said Out Loud
PoetryThe thoughts and words that no one besides myself have heard or said. I started this book at 19, a couple months after I went through the worst breakup of my life. I continues to write it during what had been the worst and best summer of my life, su...
