Affirmation Reflection

I’m not being attacked by perplexed minds
I’m not being subjugated to hatred and crime
I’m not being targeted to unwanted attention
I’m not being made in to a laughing stock

I have two legs, two arms and a pair of eyes to complete me
I have a heart, without any holes, and lungs to fill me
I have a brain, normal and detained within my own bubble
I have a voice to communicate and a will to retaliate

What have I not? I ask myself?
Do I not have it all? Wealth and health?!

But then why does my mind wander?
To intently have me ponder
On all that’s nice but just not perfect
Imperfection is what it’s bound to detect

I look at those around me, they just seem so perfect
I feel as if by being around them all I do is infect
I look at myself and see nothing but fault and defect
I look at myself in the mirror and I realize I’m incorrect

Looking at myself in the mirror, I say words that induce
Induce me to be confident, to turn away from self-abuse
And then again, all over again, I get to introduce
Myself to a reflection that says it’s time for a truce

I promise to throw away those lenses, to turn away from those eyes
That had shut the doors of positivity and grown used to despise,
I promise to look with a whole new perspective, in a way I’ve never before
And hope to bring some colour in this black and white minds core

But at the end of the day, it all becomes cloak and dagger again
Mysterious and unwanted thoughts, creep up to the mind again
Something happens which leaves me broken as my confidence crumbles
Something that only my eyes depict and miss a million others

I go back to that isolated corner, which I thought I’d never return to
Where reality hits me so hard, it’s impossible to even dream I tell you

But the cycle returns, and after much pondering and wandering
I realize the beacon of hope is still lit, if even really light
I look at the mirror which tries to repair the splintering
And then again I am reintroduced to a reflection which repeats:
“Don’t worry, everything will be alright”