I am currently writing a poetry series called ‘Mirror Monologues’. It is about the private thoughts and conversations you have with yourself.
Let me know your thoughts! This first poem is called ‘Beauty and the beast’:
Sometimes I look in the mirror and I’m pretty; Im happy with what I see.
Taking in the gem before me I serenade myself with my eyes and breathtakingly sign
Oh my, oh my – best believe I am too fine.
I blink and with the bat of an eye the vision before me brings such a surprise
Heartbreaking – I cry
This beast with two eyes stares back at me.
How is it in a split second, the second splits and all at once I am faced with such a contradiction?
My mind splits and all at once beauty and the beast stand before me.
They say the mind’s amazing and it is an amazing that I am for and against myself all at once – I don’t know.
I want to embrace myself – just as I am.
I say – just as I am – take me, just as I am.
Yet behind the bravado I won’t take myself, can’t take it.
I fight the frailty, a fragile ego set soft upon two sassy legs – open or shut I don’t know.
I fight to keep them closed as I walk, strut, stroll around the globe firing my mouth off on twitter.
plantainperiodicals 
truly we need to love ourself first and everything follows… this is to show my great appreciation to u pls. check it out….. http://willofheart.wordpress.com/2011/11/19/my-great-appreciation/
Thanks I will do.
This is cool. I truly do understand how you love yourself in one blink and judge yourself in another. Keep on loving yourself and be sure to share this with the women in the world who are influenced by beauty standards set by people who do not look like them.
Thanks for that Marcie! I will do. I believe it is so important to get young women to accept themselves in spite of the various insecurities we experience.
Love this. It speaks to me, as a very practical person – someone who knows beauty is no external thing – but still struggles with that image in the mirror. Well written!