I struggle for affirmation.

I pose,

I perform,

I preen myself

until I find the tune,

to dance to.

Watch me lose myself,

twisting, turning,

shifting, pretending,

until I find the tune

to dance to.

I become a stranger,

separated from my own story,

casting away my truth

I am unknown,

dancing with the mirror,

finding the tune,

lost in affirmation