Slow Road To Acceptance

An edited version of my poetic response, to Emily Burn's poem, "An imagined woman has an imaginary conversation". http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/Emily-B/1295609/

I know her
For she appears
Before me

Every time
I must glance
Into a mirror.

Because
She is me.

And yes
I am learning

To believe
In myself.

One painful step
At a time
From the love
Around me.