Saturday, November 2, 2024

Poem a Day 2 0 Disguise

 


Reflection


The mirror is the mask

- as is the lens -.

In an instant

I am hidden

behind some face

that couldn't possibly be the sum of

my loves and pains,

my inner, roadless, borderless landscape,

my, in fact, genetic attendance

to beauty. Always.


It is a face

twenty years into

hammering it out alone.


It is ugly, puffed, pinched, - a bit pissed.

And behind the eyes -

even the sad yearning from abadonment has gone stale.


In somehow the same life in which I loved you,

I have become pure stranger to my self.

So says the mirror

which calls me 

the disguise.



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