People lack good mirrors
Everybody has a mirror
That we look at ourselves with
And use to show others how we see them
But they are never accurate
Our mirrors are clouded in
Stereotypes
Cracked with
Labels
And shrouded with the grime of
Fear
Making the original picture
Very unclear
You
My friend
Have only seen a poor reflection of who I really am
You think I’m the smart girl who always raises her hand in class
Whose hair and clothes are always somehow slightly
Disheveled
Out of place
You’re sure I’m exclusive
Because you see me spending all my time and energy on only my friends
You believe I’m nice
But in just a “hi how are you” kind of way
Not in a truly sincere way
Impersonal
You imagine that I don’t have any trouble at all
Expressing
a thought
or emotion
That I’m confident
and always know what I’m doing
But really, despite what you think you see,
I’m actually
Quite different
From your reflection of me
I am not always so smart.
I haven't understood math since third grade
PEMDAS???
Nope
Nada
And the tragic truth is that without spell check
Eye wood problie spel lyke thiss
I also own a hairbrush
And can clean up quite nicely
I just like the lived in look
I’m totally not lazy
I just... uhh
Never mind
Who am I kidding?
The truth behind my bedraggled appearance,
Is that I would much rather sleep in than get up early to
curl my hair or pick out clothes that are not from my floor
I appear exclusive
because I only talk to certain people
But I am actually just really shy
Meeting new people scares me
It feels like every time I’m going to say something to a stranger
I always imagine how it could go wrong
And I stay silent
You wouldn’t know unless you asked though
Because when I am around my friends
I.
Never.
Shut.
Up.
And my reflection is chatty and animated
Some days my confidence is so low
I just want to into the floor
sink
And I even have trouble telling my closest friends how I feel sometimes
I get all balled up and closed
In the end I know our mirrors are inaccurate
But if the way we see ourselves and view others
is always warped by our mirrors
Clouded in
Stereotypes
Cracked with
Labels
And shrouded with the grime of
Fear
Making the original picture
Very unclear
Then can anyone realy be truly understood
Or is the way one views everything all just an illusion?