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Solve for X


Call me X
as if I am the unknown variable that you are trying to get to know but just don't know how to
Call me Irrational. 
because you can never put me in a fraction and reduce me to lower terms because forever I go.
Call me an expression
because I can never be equal to the girl I use to be, to the girl who thought she was ugly, just 
Call me ALGEBRA
 
Trying to find whats not given and they tell me that being light skin is the best completion, so that's probably the reason why my reflection was rejecting, me
She didn't like what she see, so when I went to visit her, she said please leave, so
 
Call me an integer
because I contain many negative and positive thoughts in mind about my features 
so now I become order of operations
So I add the weave to my hair to make it long and straight 
and I subtract the love and multiple the hate
Now divide what is real from what is fake and tell me who am I really?
 
Just call me a polynomial 
because I have went through many terms in my life to find what was missing, all this time I was not listening.
My refection wanted to tell me something all along, but I pushed her away because I thought she was wrong, but on this day she wanted to tell me that I am beautiful. 
 
So now I can call myself an equation because I have the same amount of love and confidence for myself on both sides.
I just Solved for X
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