Image In the Mirror

Image In The Mirror I seemed to see him from afar and watched as he grew nearer. I read the signs deep in his eyes this image in the mirror. I saw the tracks of tears he cried etched deep into his face. I read the lines of troubled times and things he can't erase. I saw the weakness he revealed his lip began to tremble. I told myself about his strength it could not fill a thimble. It's then I felt I closed my eyes and I could finally see. All the things that he endured I searched his memory. I saw the dreams he used to dream, he couldn't pay the cost. Looking back so long ago at innocence that's lost. I felt the scars cut in his back from times he was betrayed. I sensed the battles he once fought he didn't run, he stayed. I opened up my eyes once more some things are meant to be. I found I'm stronger than I thought the day that I found me. Edwin C Hofert