I am not a stranger to the dark

Even when the lights

Are blinding.

Hide away, they say

Even when I’m right out

In the open.

We don’t want your broken parts

Even if they’ve been sewn

Back together.

When the sharpest words want to cut me down

I’m gonna shatter them

Like glass.

Gonna send a flood, gonna drown them out

They are not worthy of

My attention.

I am brave

Even when I say

I am not.

I am bruised

Even when I look

Okay.

I am who I’m meant to be

A perfectly imperfect

Human being.

I am worthy

I am happy

This is me.