letters after dark | poetry book 3

museum

i look at the mirror and hate the reflection i'm seeing.

until i realize,

i am an amalgamation of people i've met and friends i made all throughout my life.
i am the sense of fashion both my sister and i share,
i am the love for reading books my mother shared to me,
the little eating habit of my friend in junior high,
and the fierceness of my friend in senior high,
the the gentle understanding of my lover,
and the will to keep studying of my friends during college,
i am the kindness to help of my first friend at my first work,
and the little joys in little things of my workmates at my second job,

i am a museum of all the people i've loved when i thought i was nothing but a little cracked kettle.