Saturday, July 3, 2010

Mirrored Perfection

Set a good example
Do the right thing
Good grades
Straight lines
Perfect girl

Lose yourself
In everyone's expectations
Who are you?
Do you even know?

Time marches on
Seasons change and pass
You wake up one day
And the person in the mirror
Is that really who you've become?

Inside yourself
You're someone else
Not so far from that perfect girl
But still flawed, confused
Not perfect - not at all

But all those years
All that time
The perfection has been expected
Rewarded - it's who you seem to be

If you know you're not
Where does that put you?
That reflection
It's the person you've become
Not who you are.

How do you reconcile
The difference between you
and the mirror you?
Do you?
Do you succumb
Or is who you've made yourself
Who you really are?

What happens when pieces of you
Are so far from perfection
They remind you that you are just
You

Life crisis
Or revelation and clarity
What you do
How you approach and embrace it
It's what determines
Who you will be
What you will become.

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