your reflection in my mirror

Oh, mirror in the sky, what is love?
Can the child within my heart rise above?
Can I sail through the changin' ocean tides?
Can I handle the seasons of my life?
- Landslide, Fleetwood Mac

I wish you could see

How beautiful you are

You smile, my soul

Intertwined

Forever

I recognize my own worth

Only because I’ve seen it

In pictures of you

I wish you could know

That everything I’ve done

I did it for you

The girl whose image is taped to my mirror

A reminder to smile

And always, to love

I wish I could tell you

You’ve cried many tears

And that’s ok—

You’re alive after all

And they have watered the garden

I am growing

As I endeavor to make flowers of my life

I wish you could understand

Everything you hate about yourself

Is what I love about me

I have learned

That in order to return to myself

I just have to come back

To you

I wish I could see

That the little girl

And all of my love for her

Is still, in fact

Me