I saw my old self
in the reflection of my renewed heart’s mirror,
a deviant me,
a resilient me,
refusing to dwarf
against the wishes of any miscreant soul,
and it realized by trusting mere words
how much pain it inflicted on its self
and liberated
it now soared to the call of a new dawn

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