Mirror Mirror on the Wall

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Instructions:

1) Write a poem or short vignette using the picture featured in this post as your inspiration. Feel free to take the image to use for your post. 

I stand before a mirror
that should cast a reflection
of myself
only to show the back of me
or the back of someone else

Is the mirror the one which
plays the trick
by eliminating
your view
the mouth the brow the nose
perhaps
it’s just your thoughts
deceiving you

for what we sometimes look at
is not always as it seems
black tailored suit
raven hair cut short
and wavy at the
back but can I tell
you something that you may be

surprised to hear
what isn’t shown encompassed
within
the frame you see
are the secrets I have lived
with the guilt
the shame
throughout the years

yet this is the way that
I am perceived
how I’m looked
at every day but there is
so much more to me
I’m not called John but Fay

For

I found this one really difficult – and welcome critique. Thank you.

Trifecta Week 58 STONE

From the fabulous Trifector folk – this weeks words is STONE. The word lithium comes from the Greek word lithos, which means stone. This weekend, we want you to give us a thirty-three response using the word stone as one of your thirty-three words. You can use any definition of the word that you’d like, but we are specifically looking for serious, well-conceived entries.

I attempt to have a well – conceived, serious entry, but as we know thoughts, like words at times are never set in stone.

Under earth
enough?
concealing
now,  your abuse
the torturing of…me

as you lay
in darkness
with rotting flesh
this gives me… no
equanimity

I spit
on your gravestone

rot in hell

…bastard