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Staring at you I start to reminisce about the time I first noticed you

Your gentle eyes, delicate lips, the way your hair seemed to shine in the lights ...

It was then that I started to wonder how others saw you? I started to see you in their eyes...

Started to judge you... to loathe you for not being them...

I started to change you to fit their expectations...

I started to make you something you were not... I made you cry....

I made you stay up late at night blaming you for not being them

I loathed you so...

I wanted to change you for them...

I traded in your happiness to fit their role

I ignored you...

Yet...

Even though you were battered, beaten, broken to pieces...

You continued to stand by me...

This fragile, yet strong mirror...

This fragile yet strong mirror looked back at me...

You've seen my smiles, my hate, my greif; yet you continue to stand unwavering through the horrendous storm...

You've been there for me. Watching me... Judging me... But never leaving me...

You are I and I am you. We are one of the same...

I need to start treating you - wait no- I need to start treating me better...

I'm a star... a star that is the brightest constellation..

Yes, me and you are the star that shines the brightest. You are the one that guided me... the one that cut these chains that bind me. You were the one that healed this broken mirror...

Yes, you are the one that saved me on that one stormy night...

You were the reason I started to love myself...

Thank you for letting me be myself...

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