Battle with Vanity
Location
Living in a world surrounded by vanity
I have a rapidly diminishing sanity
To love myself this way, it is complete and utter blasphemy
For as long as I am like this, I can never live in rhapsody
Then I ask myself
Maybe if I had lighter eyes or smaller thighs
That’ll easily capture your attention
Perhaps if my waist was a perfect size or I looked like a prize
I would truly be worthy of your blissful mentions
Excuse my venting and pardon my digression
But I’m tired of being trapped under society’s oppression
To look a certain way and to behave like a doll
If I don’t conform, there is an immense and evident fall
I’m stuck in a pondering stage
What if I gave in and let go of my tenacity
And allowed myself to become what I despised
My whole entire life would be without veracity
Due to me living life in a true disguise
I used to avoid and fear looking at myself
Therefore I put my inner confidence on a shelf
Years of not knowing my self worth
Walked around with my feet dragging on the earth.
What’s happening?
Life goes by quickly too fast for this type of worry
No longer afraid I am the woman of my dreams
I pick myself up, dry my eyes, my sight is no longer blurry
Look at me and now I see my beauty bursts of its seams
I learned that my beauty is no longer validated by people who make me blue
Honestly no misconceptions, this battle with vanity is true
I’m still fighting but I learned loving myself was long overdue
If this battle crosses your path, I hope you win it too.