My Characters

There are a million words out there.

And there are words that express people.

Yet, I can't find a word that expresses me. To explain who I am, how I think, and how I act.

But I write a lot. And I create these characters.

And these characters hold a piece of me in them.

They may have my eyes, the color of my hair, my skin color or they act the way I act, they think the way I think.

And I was going through a time where I didn't  want to love myself.

So I began to write, to express the feelings that I just couldn't say in real life.

The more I wrote, the more beautiful characters I created.

Each one I wrote, I loved.

It wasn't until I sat down and began to read my stories that I realized my characters, my beloved characters, reminded me of someone.

Me.

I love myself and my characters helped me do that.

Because I love my characters.

Because my characters are me.