The Beautiful
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I sometimes pride myself in the way I speak
The way I walk
With strength and perseverance,
Determination.
People tell me,
“You're a fighter,’
Strong
Amazing
Attributes that you would give to a super hero
Not someone who has dealt with a mental illness,
But someone who has seen pain and fought back
Sometimes I feel the darkness overwhelm me again
The demons start to taunt me
I hear their words
I feel their presence
But they have no affect on me
If I had the power to change one thing in this world
It would be to change ugly
I would change the way we saw ourselves every time we looked in the mirror
With self-hate and through tear filled eyes
We see the bad
The awful
Sometimes we forget that we are only human
And it is okay to mess up
The pain sometimes serves as a lesson
But that doesn’t mean we don’t deserve the good
The amazing
And the beautiful
Because the lesson is we aren’t deprived of any of it
The Strong sometimes fall
But they get back up again
The Amazing are sometimes sad
But that doesn’t stop them from moving on
Some nights I cry,
But most nights I don’t
I don’t have to fix everything,
And that’s perfectly okay.
I can pride myself that I have helped,
That I have loved,
And that it was enough.
If I had the power to change one thing in this world,
It would be to change the ugly
And turn it into something beautiful
And I did.