"The looking-glass self" by Sofia Kioroglou

"The looking-glass self" by Sofia Kioroglou

A Poem by Sofia Kioroglou


Your stabs hit me exactly where you hope they would
with such ferocity that gouges out all vanity and conceit.
A knife thrust through the illusions of my bloated ego,
An ugly distortion of an inner image through a plastic glass
which finally crumpled with me looking at the looking-glass self.

© 2017 Sofia Kioroglou


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Sofia Kioroglou
Sofia Kioroglou

Athens, Kifissia, Greece



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I am a published writer, a poet, a pilgrim, a missionary and a wife! I find writing to be a form of catharsis. My poems are imbued with deep empathy and begging for answers. Sometimes my lines are ove.. more..

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