Shattered Mirror - Scattered Lies

Self Image.

Dawning anew what may, I awakened
to the same self of yesterday.
Mirrors reflected my outer imperfections -
wherein I once thought my worth lay.

Forgot beliefs, faith, talents, and passions...
forgot never deign image - not Deity - Creator,
resigned inner to collecting filth and dust
at surface, unless I dared to delve deeper.

While traversing my trails of self travel,
I became enamoured with reflected others...
and wished - within - I could resemble them...
ever searching alterations to endeavor.

Mirror, mirror, spoke words untrue, impure -
hurt my heart with your slicing lies...
I despise shimmering statements uttered,
where you denied my beauty inside.

Overlooked one too many times, she, who
I could not deny - my self within...
Thinly concealed were my real qualities,
revealed only when cleansed was sin.

Shattered fragments spread across floor;
I'll not resent what I cannot stop being...
It won't reveal the lovely me within,
so I've broken that glass deceiving.