I Look Into the Mirror

(My Journey Through Weight Loss)

By: Tracie Sanderlin, 4/30/02

I look into the mirror

And don’t know whom I see.

I look into the mirror

My God, that can’t be me!

I look into the mirror

And say it’s time to start.

I look into the mirror

The old me has to part.

I look into the mirror

I seem a little thinner.

I look into the mirror

It’s worth eating less for dinner.

I look into the mirror

I’m starting to see success.

I look into the mirror

I weigh a lot less.

I look into the mirror

Could it be the proof?

That I have actually found

The underlying truth?

That the mirror wasn’t just

A shiny piece of glass.

That the image in the mirror

Was a picture of my past.

That the mirror I really need

Is made of something else.

The only mirror I need to see

Is the mirror inside myself.