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That

Before I left the house
I had a chat with my mirror
To get feedback on my blouse
And guess what?

So loyal of the mirror 
It revealed answers I hadn't put questions for

Rubbed in my face was the cold truth
         That
My camouflaged complexion is too uneven
Looks like the art of a mediocre painter
Are my knees and elbows that dark
  that you say
Charcoal puts them to shame
That a dog's lousy eyes are nothing
When one comes across mine

That I need
  a nose job, liposuction, breasts uplift, lasers for my stretch marks, botox, appetitos, extension of my hips and back..and lord knows what else

Ohh what a pleasure it was 
Talking to the most blunt mirror in the world 
Not to mention how sensitive, helpful,considerate,sweet and not brutal at all it was
such that

I forgot where my presence was being needed
My sneakers couldn't collect my direction 
All they could create was friction 
Sending me back to bed
Where dear subconscious decided 
To give my mirror a piece of its mind

So is that all you see when my diagram stands before your page
Are my imperfections your only perfect area of
 target

Do you by any chance mean to say that
What really matters 
Is the right amount of botox and not my confidence
The right shape as to how I should draw my eyebrows and not the right shape of my life
That I starve myself for an English body
What you commonly refer to as a "beach body"
Yet I have the slightest idea of what an ocean/sea is
When I can't even access a swimming pool itself

What exactly are you telling me to be?
Western when I'm southern
White when I'm black

Do me one favour and let me do me and be me
Cause therez no chance i'm being all that!!

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