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Mirror Mirror

October 29, 2018
By izzybeumer BRONZE, Saint Peters, Missouri
izzybeumer BRONZE, Saint Peters, Missouri
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Favorite Quote:
“Live the life your younger self dreamed, her create a world your future self can’t wait to see.”


She is my mirror,

constantly reflecting back to me

everything about me

directly back to me.


She tells me her raw thoughts

on how I am dressed.

Am I suit to impress?

She asks me about my day-

it is always the same.

She reflects my image well,

we look the exactly the same.

But she is just an average mirror.

She doesn’t know what lurks

beneath my artificial skin.


She reflects a smiling face,

but it is an image easy for me to fake.

She reflects bursts of laughter,

but it covers a piercing cry I constantly want to make.

She reflects a compassionate heart,

but it is just taped over a heart built by cheap stick glue.


She tried so hard to fix

her mirror mirror

on the wall

who will never be the fairest

of them all.


The author's comments:

What we reflect to the world isn't what we always mean or feel. Sometimes, we just have to play our part to get through the barriers in our own lives whether that lines up with how we actually feel or not.


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_ITSJEMMY GOLD said...
on Oct. 13 2022 at 3:32 pm
_ITSJEMMY GOLD, Lagos, Other
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Favorite Quote:
IF YOU CANT LOVE ANYONE AT LEAST LOVE YOURSELF, YOU ARE WHO YOU ARE DONT LET ANYONE CHANGE THAT, YOU ARE LIKE THE STAR THAT SHINES AT ITS APPOINTED TIME

wow must of your poems are relatable, when i read them i feel like someone is narrating what i go through