I understand you

I understand you

Those words are so hard to say.

Some can like you

Love you

Want you

Lust you,

But do they understand you?

Do they understand

How much you hate your reflection?

How many monsters that are under your bed?

How many demons you fight in your head

Just to get you through a day?

Do they understand

The scars on your skin?

The words that you say to yourself at night?

What about those thoughts

That plague you

About death?

I'm here to tell you I understand.

I am you and you are me.

We're battling the same things

Just at a different degree.

You see,

No one understands me

But you.

That's more than yesterday.

So thank you for being you

And know that I'm here.

I see you.

I notice you.

I understand you.

#poetry #selfimage #selfesteem