To See ME

For so long….looking into the mirror,

I saw only a reflection of an image,

a stranger looking back at me.

When looking into my eyes,

I saw only emptiness, a void.

Beneath thos eyes were many fears,

fears of pain,

fears of sorrow,

fears of hoplessness.

How could I not know this face before me,

as I stood looking the mirror?

Where was this person that I used to be,

why couldn’t I see?

Turning again looking into the mirror,

I saw my life, one that had gone out,

like a candle beig extinguished.

All my pride,

my joy,

my hopes,

my desires,

my passions,

all was gone.

What reflected back from that mirror,

was a stranger looking back at me.

Standing there feeling so alone,

lost and confused, the fear set in.

Where was this person I called ME?

Walking away from that image, never wanting to look again,

my life continued on.

Over time I found myself looking in that mirror again,

yet this time when I looked what reflected back to me was a face,

my face.

My eyes filled with hope, a burning love,

a prid of being me,

a passion for living.

No longer a darkness did I see, for out of my eyes a light was shining,

a reflection of ME!

For you see, I was no longer a stranger.

Yet there still is that pain deep within,

that pain has taken on a new meaning in my life.

Through the tears and countless hours of feeling alone,

those hours I screamed out and no one heard

through the pain and cofusion,

emerge the real me.

It took all those disappointments and life’s hurts to make me see,

I belong here.

No longer am I just an image in a mirrorI am a reflection of my real self.

Those hurts,

those pains,

those joys,

that hope,

that burning passion,

that endless love.

The good and the bad, it’s allwhat makes me….

 ME.