Sunday, September 7, 2008

Mirror View


The touch was cold,

Cold as the deepest winter

Where you stand bare,

The cold piercing the depth of your soul

Leaving you vulnerable, brittle,

Endangered by this icy flame

But I could not resist, could not pull away.

Some strange unknown force fixed me,

Hand to hand – right-on-left and left-on-right

What unknown power does this mirror hold, to enthral the soul,

To dull the world in a world of its own?

I stare, the reflection of my confusion,

What barrier is this, thin as a falsetto strain

Yet far far deeper than a moonlit silence?

Mere glass or more than glass? A window

Into your very own eyes,

Where all you see is a stranger you’ve never seen before

But you’ve known your entire life

No comments: