<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=511760" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>My Beauty External</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I stand in front of the mirror.<br>I turn on the light, so my reflection I can see.<br>But things are not as they appear.<br>I do not like what I see.<br>I just want to be beautiful.<br>The lights are dimmed, to minimize the outward appearance.<br>I try to appease an outside world, <br>I want them to see the beautiful me.<br>Why is it they speak of a beauty that I do not find so apparent? <br>Why is it I see the same beauty in another that stares in disappointment at their reflection? <br>Their lights too are dimmed.<br>But it is not the outward light that shows beauty.<br>It is my inward light.<br>If my inward light is dimmed.<br>Then it is my inner beauty that lurks in the darkness of my own mind.<br>A battle that has raged since before the dawn of time.<br>I shut off the light, <br>I cannot shut off the voices in my mind.<br>Many voices screaming, drowning out the one that whispers.<br>They tell me I am not good enough.<br>If I clear my mind, and silence the voices, <br>I hear the one whisper into my heart.<br>&quot;You are beautiful&quot;.<br>For now, it is my inward light that shines. <br>It reflects my beauty for the world to see.<br>But it is only when that light shines within me.<br>That my beauty of the external can be seen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ryan+Lee+Morris">Ryan Lee Morris</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=511760" data-title="My Beauty External de Ryan Lee Morris" data-description="I stand in front of the mirror. I turn on the light, so my reflection I can see. But things are not as they appear. I do not like what I see. I just want to be beautiful. The lights are dimmed, to minimize the outward appearance. I try to appease ..."></div> </div> </div>

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