With your trauma you devoured my love With your narrative you silenced my voice With your self-hate you killed my self-love

I always try to be the person that everyone else wants

Even when that person clashes with who I am

It's astounding what a difference small changes can make reshaping my entire outlook on the rest of life

An endless struggle to love myself and who I am without finding someone else to do it for me

I gazed into the mirror And realized one day That my inside and outside Looked nothing alike

Love It came and went but the love I have for me will never fade

It may never be easy to share who you really are Will it feel good to open up? Or will it only create a new scar?

It’ll take days, months, years To search and discover who you are You may find out in your backyard Or you may have to travel quite far

It’s hard to be you to be honest, be true when people want you to change when they only see you as strange

I want to open up To unleash my soul Let them flow freely But I'm not sure how