A: affirmation, the act or process of affirming something

You showered me with your compliments

until I was hooked up

and as a result

occasionally searching for your

validation

I could never really be beautiful

unless you said I was

my specifications relied merely on your

denotations

But now you gone

and as a result I can no longer look in the mirror

because without you

I no longer have my daily dose of

affirmations