I'm looking into the mirror, but the person I see is not myself.
In fact, what I see is not a person at all.
All I see are a bunch of labels.
As a kid, the person I saw in the mirror was a person,
Now it's simply a list in person-form.
Libertarian1034Please respect copyright.PENANA5wxGE2m9PY
Asexual1034Please respect copyright.PENANAOrRXFLnThY
Heteroromantic1034Please respect copyright.PENANApU6m0A6m2V
Gender neutral1034Please respect copyright.PENANAKE2nzuACzC
Writer1034Please respect copyright.PENANAL0dO6lpeT4
Seeker of patterns1034Please respect copyright.PENANASB2AJjK60K
Dreamer1034Please respect copyright.PENANA5leewatbG8
Depressed
Overly Anxious1034Please respect copyright.PENANAf4RsOoSPLa
Creative1034Please respect copyright.PENANATEtSgtyFpb
Introverted1034Please respect copyright.PENANAmSJ4uQqaC5
These things are what other people see. They call me these things and say, "That's you"1034Please respect copyright.PENANAXfnTxTFurR
I'm troubled by this; all I see are a bunch of words.1034Please respect copyright.PENANAhNflj8Ueem
Where is my dirt hair with light streaks of sun that always tries to escape from the grip of my hair ties?
Where are all my pimples, and whiteheads, and blackheads?
Where are the dents my glasses kiss onto my skull?
Where are my eyes, always looking confused and bored at the outside world, because they prefer seeing what's in my own mind?
Where am I?
I'm not here.
I dust away all the labels from my body, and they fly to the corners of the mirror, struggling to buzz back around my head and entomb me again.1034Please respect copyright.PENANATVsXn0QoqD
I pick up the word asexual. Yes, this is me. I am proud to call myself this.
I stick it over my waist, so no-one can get past the barrier it sets.
Heteroromantic flies into my eye and I pick it up gingerly, settling its wings over my heart.
Libertarian I leave in the edge of my reality, whispering opinions to my conscious, but not close enough to break anything too delicate for it to handle.
Depressed
Over Anxious
Introverted
I mash them into nothing and blow them away. They are part of me, but they aren't me.
Writer
Dreamer
Seemingly similar phrases that are enemies always at war. Writing earns its place, leaving dreamer to find a new home
Seeker of patterns fades away before I can even get to it
I pick up gender neutral, it whispers lies into my ear
You are me because you are not like the others1034Please respect copyright.PENANAMBj2UO3EDM
You are me because you see things differently1034Please respect copyright.PENANARddUwRAVkt
You are me because there is no better place to put you1034Please respect copyright.PENANAc8zJq6n7QP
Its words make my stomach a hurricane as I break it apart and remold it to form a single word: girl1034Please respect copyright.PENANAJXKAYCWAo5
The world may see me as the lies, but my heart knows the truth, drags it into the ring to beat out the darkness the lies cause.
As each and every label is put in its proper place, I no longer see the human of labels or even where each piece of the puzzle connects in this jigsaw.
The only thing I see is the girl with pimply skin, flyaway hair, glasses, confused eyes and a personality like no other person has ever made a mask of
I see me, my own skin, my body, my mind.
I'm looking into the mirror, and I see myself.
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