A/N: This is a poem that takes place after book 4. Its just Korea's reflection of herself after everything she's been through. Remember how she had looked at herself in that cracked mirror in the beginning? Yea its what she sees now.

Her reflection a misty grey, a ghostly silhouette of her former self

The details ever clear.

Rough patches on the never - ending skin,

Witnessed

Like brush to a wrinkled canvas,

Imprinting tattoos in its journey.

A [ ] story to tell

Hidden beneath the course fabrics of her armbands

Masking her past, shielding her skeletons,

Stowed away in a buried cage.

Where a bruised red and indigo hurt

Are expelled throughout her pencil scrawled outline

Filling veins with life.

Few hold the skeleton key to release her dusty stories.

Yet she welcomes these marks,

Enveloping her in a comfortable, artful embrace

Etching a smile on her features-

The figure nods in understanding.

She leaves the mirror

Shutting off the revealing lights,

illuminating her sculpted scars.

Leaving her to express her truest colors,

Ready to face whatever comes next.

She's the Avatar,

A power reaching sky high,

Limitless

Korra's been though a lot that's for sure. First she gets her bending taken away. Albeit it was only for a short period of time, it was definitely effective. Her bending is who she is, her identity. Without it she was a lost broken spirit.

Then her own uncle, UNCLE, for Pete's sake tries to take everything she's ever known and twist it. Making her go against her own family, her own tribe. He wanted the world for himself for all the wrong reasons and that was against her policies as the Avatar. So he did anything he could to rid of her. Attempting to crush her by ice and crap like what the hell!

Then you have Mr. Self-Righteous Zaheer come book 3. Twisting her thoughts as well and then putting deadly poison into her body in the end. That was her final straw he killed what was left of our favorite sixteen, seventeen year old girl we had in book 1, and 2. She wasn't the same anymore and it showed in book 4. Although her attitude was better along with her attention towards people, more open-minded because of it.

All these events in her life are the rough patches she's gone through that show on her skin. There are scars. We all know this. She uses armbands to cover them up.

But I feel like she's grown so much. Finally being able to accept who she is as a person and that no matter what she's been through it shouldn't stop her from her goals as the Avatar and as a person, you know? That's why I wrote, "A [ ] story to tell". Her life has had its up and downs. You can't really assign a certain genre to her story.

Anyway that's what I was going for.

Reviews are greatly appreciated and also I would really just like to know your interpretation of this poem. Did you connect a certain line to this event or... What?