Me in You
Description: I wrote this last night as part of my mini essay for my Psychology of Personality class. It is my way of giving an example of Harry Stack Sullivan’s unique theory on the development of personality.
Keeping eyes closed I cannot see.
The monster in the mirror staring back at me.
Remember when I was 15 and I asked for you to see.
To see what you thought was valuable in me.
Do you remember what you said?
The words that cut me in ways you’d never understand.
And now you have the gull to ask.
Why I cannot cry, and why I cannot feel?
Remember it was your own words that told me not to.
Not cry: Not feel.
Only now you ask of me what you have taken at 15.
Are you supposed to mean something to me now?
All I can do is repeat the same words.
Don’t tell me I’m cruel because I am just you.
You made me ice; ice can never feel.