Poem-a-Day Challenge, Day 2!
Mirror Girl
happy days and
happy nights fell day
after day in her world
of smiles and warmth
emanating from within
her very being
she’d never seen such a
joyful heart and
with confusion pouring
through her eyes, she
noticed a reflection
she was her,
the mirror girl
not quite sure who
truly existed in
the crystalline pool of
ever-fooling mirages
she was burning,
flames of what she could
be contradicted mirror girl
who hid beneath the
cool waters with
embers for her innocent
soul, yet she was
her upside down—
an unchanged image displayed
from a worldly
viewpoint
she was never convinced who
the others saw, for
different times meant
different images
sometimes she managed
to let herself drown
in her ever smiling
ever lovely
persona
forget to breath
forgot to
it was all too easy
to be unreal
but more real still
for the good of
some in her world
who saw and needed
the light in her
she hoped one day she’d
truly drown, following the
light into the mirage
like a mirror weight
to show the world what
they needed to see
and never come
up for air
Oh my word! I had your stunning imagery running through my brain the entire time I read this! The last stanza is amazingly haunting and beautiful:
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they needed to see
and never come
up for air"
I love the contrast between the first and last stanzas, and your wordage was astounding :)
Oh I'm SO glad you liked this :) I wrote it once in first person and it sounded all wrong, so I had to switch it. But thank you very much:)
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