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Broken Mirror

I had a broken mirror once, it told me what to wear and if I dared defy it's power, it said things I couldn't bear. I had a broken mirror once, it told me what to eat - that cracker, there, is just enough to feel lighter on your feet. My broken mirror followed me past car windows, to the shops. It told me I should hide away, but that at some point this would stop. My broken mirror made me think that it cared about my health - this is for your own good, it said, but keep it to yourself. My broken mirror gave me reasons that I should stay in bed, and I used its shards to feel some pain for on the inside I felt dead. But my broken mirror lied to me when it told me I was bad. The glass, as dirty as it was, stopped me seeing what I had. My mirror isn't broken now, I fixed it, all alone and though it took some parts of me they're slowly coming home. My mirror is feeling better now, I've got my mirror back. So, now even when I wear THOSE jeans it never calls me fat. My new mirror doesn't talk to me, doesn't tell me what to do. Although it sometimes nods when I walk past as though it likes the view.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2016




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Date: 9/6/2016 12:25:00 PM
You are a genuine poet , right?
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Ajwaj Aju
Date: 9/6/2016 12:39:00 PM
oh ya, of course
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Lauren Andrews
Date: 9/6/2016 12:34:00 PM
Sorry that sent twice for some reason. I just sometimes write things, they're probably no good but it's nice to get them out of my head is all :)
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Lauren Andrews
Date: 9/6/2016 12:33:00 PM
How do you mean?
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Ajwaj Aju
Date: 9/6/2016 12:32:00 PM
as a new poet, just curiosity
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Lauren Andrews
Date: 9/6/2016 12:27:00 PM
How do you mean?

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