Lily Anna | Free Poems
Looking in the Mirror
A young girl stands before me
I search her soul
Deep within her big, brown eyes is pain
She hides it for fear of what people will say
Or how they will see her
Because she has always been told to stay strong
And keep her head held high
No one will ever know what she has been through
Or how many tears have fallen from her eyes
And rolled down her cheek
Only to be wiped away
To hide any evidence
Of what has been
The girl smiles
She looks happy
Then you look harder
And realize you can’t judge a book by the cover
She tries so hard to cover up
All of her broken hearts
And all those could-have-been
But not any kind of make-up can hide that
Even though she is beautiful
She can’t believe it
Because she’s been told so many times
That she’s worthless