I stare at myself:
A flawless face�
Too wide,
A shapely
figure�
Too large.
I let it
d
r
o
p . .
.
s t
h t e
a r
a thousand pieces of myself
strewn across the somber floor.
in each
ghastly fragment,
an ugly face,
a fat figure�
I
I i istare at myself.
This poem was intended not only to express my own insecurities, but also those of fellow females and teenagers. The "it" mentioned (that which drops and shatters upon the floor) is literally a mirror, representing self-image. It seems that when we focus on a personal flaw, to our own eye it multplies, hence the reverberating I's within each broken fragment of the mirror by the end of the poem.