Reflection

I look into the mirror and see a stranger staring back at me 

Its kind of scary to look at and see this stranger staring back at me

Something just isn't right with this image that is before me

I stare and I Stare

I wave my hands all around very frantically determine to expose this imposter before me!

 and for some reason this stranger is mimicking me!

Im so angry and scared of this person who lies before me

With these soulless eyes

and tired looking face

it was like a shell of a person, hollow and lifeless

This stranger in the Mirror

Staring back at me 

 broken and all alone

There is no way that can  be me

This has to be fraud that is standing before me 

who is this imposter that is staring back at me

I scream and I Scream with all my might !

 at this thing that is staring right back at me

and it screams right back in my face with just as much ferocity

its all getting lost in the void

My voice is aching from the screams and shouts

Like a mantra

I am worthy!

I am content!

I am valuable!

I am deserving! 

This pathetic thing shrieks back at me

All the same words are echoing back 

Sound like nothing but woeful lies

Its not listening to what Im saying

This entity before me must be mocking me

 I cant even recognize this thing that is staring back at me

How could I grow up and this be me

There is no possible way that this stranger is me that is looking right back at me

Standing all alone

Where are all the friends that II use to know

so broken and damaged

Its an ugly truth that stands before me

The more I stare the more shattered I become

Have I really come this far

And fooled so many with these beautiful lies

Becoming good at this game of deceit

That I managed to trick everyone including me

No Way

I swear I am okay

I must not fall victim 

To this stranger before me

I must not get sucked in

This is not who I am

I have grown away from this stranger before me

I swear it 

I have had enough of this nonsense

In a last act of desperation

I shatter this image in the mirror before

Its reflection now stares back at me in fragments

This stranger stares at me still

I  begin to walk away and somehow...

 This stranger in the mirror follows me

Only now in a million little fragments reflected back at me

 A shadow that lurks till this my dying breath.

  

Reviews

[Jess]

"I have grown away from this stranger before me
I swear it"

Feels so much like trying to convince ones self that they are new instead of pleading with another to see it. I loved reading it! Very well done!

[Rose]

Wow this is so powerful. This is absolutely amazing! Thank you so much for sharing❤️