Self-Image

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To reflect without a mirror leaves little room to fool yourself.

Self-Image by Odin Roark Once of water Man first eyed himself Perhaps leaning to drink Club in one hand Food clenched firmly in the other Even today How arresting first glance must be While a mother hovers Cooing with pride The infant stares up A crib’s mobile of heart-mirrors Reflecting images just beginning Sooner than later Such imitative echoes become real Revealing deception’s potency Urging actuality into the shadows Giving inner truth little chance Such becomes one’s three-way mirror What others see What might be What is inexorable Façade’s reflection Vague Invented Contorted Mired Forged Such folly Mere antecedent Ultimately without a trace

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