Fairylights (a poem on self love)

Fairy lights

Her thoughts light up her mind

Fairy lights fluttering about 

Leaving ill will behind

Shielding her from her self doubt

She lets them encompass her

Their warm and kind embrace 

As they try to remind her 

Maybe she’s not such a disgrace 

They welcome her into a fairytale

Princes whisking her away 

The damsel in distress is doomed to fail 

Perhaps a man will remold her delicate clay 

She dreams of nights that have since passed 

And new ones that will be 

Oh, how she loves to dance and laugh 

The taste of what it is to be free 

She dwells in bygone memories 

And new ones soon to be made 

But the joke of her frivolous frienzies 

Is she’s not happy now, today 

See what the fairy lights don’t tell her 

As they set her mind aflame

Is happiness is deep inside her 

Not something waiting to take aim

No man or prince or charmer

Can unveil what’s in her core

For it is she who wears the armour

That covers her gold ore 

Yet ore it needs refinement 

Needs to be scrubbed to see its worth 

If only she’d see her lonely confinement 

Has not been this way since birth 

So let me please remind you

To let your walls come down

If only I could unwind you 

I fear in your layers you do drown 

Fairy lights are powerful

Flickering thoughts warm and new 

But you’ve let them overcome you

Setting ablaze the girl you once knew so true 

So come out please, I’m waiting

It’s me, your inner voice

Life’s real, it’s hard, it’s grating 

But it is your only choice 

To live amongst the scary

Is to be brave and strong and smart

For that’s how fairytales are built

I promise, easy isn’t worth the heart

Let your fairy lights guide you my dear

There is a world filled with life to pursue  

The fairytales are still out there

They are waiting for you too

May your happiness rejoice with the sun

Stop burying it away

Of moon and stars you will become  

Oh, I can’t wait to see the day 

-Lilah Shrier

• mental health
• original poem
• poem
• romance
• self-love