Thursday, January 7, 2010

Portrait

My mistress stands before me in dismay

I show her not what she had hoped to see.

She combs her hair; it frizzes, flies away,

This is not how her life was meant to be.

She backs away, is looking from a distance,

Her clothes are far too snug, her face too plain.

She twists in different angles in resistance

To the image I deliver once again.

She prays to find the one that looks beyond

That girl with unco-operating hair

For she’s a thousand stories, lifetimes long,

If only he would find the time to spare,

To see what I, a mirror, cannot show,

A girl who makes you laugh when you are low.

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