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June 5, 2022
By LotsOfChocolateCherries PLATINUM, Portland, Oregon
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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

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Mirror mirror on the wall

Tell me, who is the fairest of them all?

Is she pretty? Is she perfect?

Does she have riches? Does she want it?

Does she sing to animals?

Does she bake delicious pies?

Does she have sparkling blue eyes?

Mirror mirror on the wall

Tell me, why am I not the fairest of them all?

You continue to spill the supposed truth

That she is perfect 

Because of her surface

Mirror mirror no longer on the wall

Tell me I’m the fairest of them all

Mirror shard mirror shard

Cutting up my hand

Tell me I’m the most perfect girl in the land

Photo by Inga Gezalian on Unsplash

The author's comments:

I feel like I live in this world where society is telling me in many forms that "this is what's beautiful, and this is what isn't". And it just always feel like I don't fit there, like I'm caught on a line between wanting to be different and wanting to be considered beautiful. This poem kind of represents that struggle between what you see in the mirror, what you want to see, and what the world sees

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on Oct. 18 2022 at 11:08 am
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@frogonamushroom WHAT ARE YA DOING IN MY SWAAAAMP
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