Wednesday, December 09, 2009

Stranger in the mirror . . .

















Where do I go now?

Feels like I’ve been everywhere just to be stuck at nowhere

I have seen faces in the streets that I learnt to forget.

But the one in the mirror defied me.

I don’t remember that other guy . . .


A Stranger . . .

With shades of me . . . Within me . . .

Darker . . . not just skin deep . . .

He looked down on me; I saw him smirk.

Two faced mirrors, I ran to the other side to face up to him . . .

He flipped sides . . .

Playing a game I didn’t like  . . .

I broke the mirrors . . . but his face stayed on - like an inert reflection.


I stopped . . .


I stopped looking at him . . .
I saw him at strange places still . . .

I saw him in a lake; the ripples from the stones I pelted did not dissuade him . . .


Unendurable Coercion  . . .


I jumped into the lake to find him . . .
To find me . . .

One of us did not make it out . . .

And I wished it was him . . .
Slowly I was . . . An inert reflection . . .




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