16 Looking Back At 15

16 looking back at 15 Looking into a glass staring back at me, my eyes, my lips, and my face beautiful I see. Yet different staring back at me. Conscious of the events that got me here, discipline, go Getta staring back at me. Sixteen years but yet I see when I was 4, 5, and then three. Courageous yet scared of the life I’m trying to make. Picking up mistakes that were part of my fate. I look back College bound I see. I need to get focused, for the years keep leaving me. Educated sista, Lonely but not alone. Letting friends from my past wonder on their own. Who is this young women I see fifteen left behind on the 10th of July. That’s me a reflection of last year’s tears staring back at me… See I’m healed from the pain that has worn down on me.