Admiration

Admiration/ I saw myself for the first time
I admire your courage

To face unfaceables 

I admire your strength 

To keep going

I commend you on getting back to you

No longer being a wanderer

The ability to stand up tall

Entering into your greatness

The ins and the outs

I admire you for not giving up

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Last night I saw myself for the first time

I looked in the bathroom mirror

And saw my own reflection

And I smiled

I was beautiful 

Never seen a me like that before

The blindfold was off

Released from everything I once knew to be true

I was beautiful

Stripped away from agony I keep myself in

I was beautiful

I smiled

When I saw myself for the first time

Mind was unclogged from longing thoughts

I felt like the butterfly tattooed on my back

Representative of freedom within self

I saw myself for the first time

And I was beautiful

Not only outwardly

But my inside was revealed

Slowly. Unfolding. In. My. Reflection.

Unwrapping in front of me

Releasing herself to me

I was beautiful

Tapping me on my shoulder saying “it’s time”

I was beautiful

All of my inner strength whispered to me

My hopes drawing on my faith

My fears fleeing from my eyes

Courage taking me by the hand

Patience covering me with its blanket

I saw myself for the first time

And I knew and saw what everyone else sees 

I was beautiful 

I am beautiful.