If I lose myself, death would be a better option-- I live because I've not abandoned myself, despite my weaknesses and failures, and also because I've dignity and honour, like everyone else in the universe.  

No one nor any single identity can ever take away my freedom and my right to be.

Don't polish
your mirror
it sees you clearly-
without error

don't go out
to buy another
it's the same you
you can't court its favour

I've not abandoned
myself--oh no!
I'm not lost at all
of this I surely know

This too well
do I know:
the world
doesn't need me
not at all

but
I'm within it
away I can't go-

with my weaknesses
my failings
my foibles
even such so
my path
therein I'll set
my will
I'll follow

my right
my intrinsic self
the world
can never overthrow!

My ally
is always nigh
whether it's day
or night

walking faithfully
by my side
in every stride
I'm set right-

its image
is in my mirror
whenever
I look inside

Poetry
life's sublimest vibrancy:
every human sentiment captured
all beauty, enraptured

It can wait---the universe-
  understand yourself first