Self-Made Self-Worth

It's not fair that we create our own self worth

Our image does not just exist, wholly apart from any author

It's not created by others but by ourselves

all alone by ourselves

Self-worth is not a mirror, it's a painting

a landscape of self-loathing

hate of myself taints the canvas

riddles it with tears

when another sees me

they don't look with their own eyes

they see what inner demons made

and understandably disinterested

they pass me by