Duality in life
i live this life
but I don't know
whose life it is
hiding from mirrors
and reflective surfaces
afraid of my own face
face to face
with the fact
that I don't really like me
it's the worst phobia
looking
I mean actually seeing
the person you've become
as a kid
I was confident I'd be in the movies
then came puberty
the skin doesn't seem to fit right
and I don't remember building this wall
too high to scale
too thick to break
I found words
I took them in
stole them
shaped them
and spewed them back out
These poems aren't for you
they are mine
but if you like them
then great
it's just the first step
on looking myself in the face
and learning to like what I see