I feel that this short poem may have many interpretations and the way I see it is about perspective. How someone else can see you completely different than you see yourself and vice versa. I wrote this about a relationship I had over the summer because now that I think back on it, a big reason I stayed in it for as long as I did was that she would say I was attractive or compliment me a lot, and subconsciously my ego was feeding off of that. I am not the protagonist or good guy in this poem, as it is awful to think that I would do something like that, on purpose or not. I am not talking to her anymore, but in the end, I talk about how I unknowingly used that boost in self-esteem as a stepping stone leading to a future self that I respected. However, once I realized this, my ego dropped much lower and I wondered how she could have respected that person I showed to her. I wrote the poem almost to sort out my own thoughts for myself, as I see poetry as a great opportunity to organize abstract emotions into something I and others can understand.