There was a time when I had lost all of my confidence.

I felt like I had nothing to live for,

Like there was nothing in society that would ever

Inspire me to be more than who I thought I was.

 

Every day I would search for something to live for,

Something I could aspire to be.

I started to lose my voice in my generation.

I would let others insult me without standing up for myself.

 

However, as the years passed, the insults stopped,

And I found my voice

Along with my self-confidence,

Both buried beneath my painful past.

 

I discovered that what I had been searching so many years for,

Was hiding right beneath my nose the entire time.

The quality that I hoped to gain was already there.

Its name is Determination.

 

Determination to never give up on myself,

Determination to push through all of the emotional torture I had been put through,

Determination to use my voice when I need to,

Determination to accept myself as beautiful and to not care what others think of me.