Backscattering

She gazed at the looking glass, but the mirror refused to grant her a preview of what might happen, a clear picture of where she had been and if she existed at all, the spectre of the moment seemed to be disguised from inspection. Coming to terms with having absorbed and condensed too many of society’s norms and demands had seemingly been her duty and the prism of requests on her image of beauty had failed her inner Self. She drooled onto the spitting image of nothingness and the slobber ran down to the frame that upheld phlegm and contempt before it trickled down onto the baseless floor founded on hardcore delusion. Diet pills and dark shades had not relieved her from a succession of errors of reason and emotion and when she had blindfolded herself, the blinkers tore deep into her misrepresentation of surrender and cosmetic denial.

scanned in revulsion

vacant echoes burst the sight –

shards of glass splintered

So many fragments pierced into her eyes, that dry tears covered the pulverized viewing and heart-blood sprayed all over her soul. A point of no return, because if she failed to stem the flow and bandage the wounds, gangrene would set it soon and salving the lacerations would only speed up infection and purulent grime. The wall in front of her blurred out of proportion and there was nothing she could do about it other than retrieving bristles and paint from the storeroom and gloss over the shiny remnants of disrepair. And therefore, she entered into a journey of the unknown, drew rose petals and thorns onto broken canvas. Before she knew it, she decoupaged disintegration and fractures, glued a mosaic of imagination to mirror what should have been there in the first place. Sweat dripped from her forehead and smudged aquarelle shades which reassembled self-worth and confronted demons and abuse. An inner voice shouted, ‘all you need is a mantra to caption the artwork which you truly are.’ That is when she wrote her first poem and became free of doubts, oppression and cynical critique.

blame discredit reproach

failed to appease me in vain –

reflections can change


26th March 2021

Copyright © | Year Posted 2021



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Date: 5/12/2021 8:34:00 AM
Congratulations! The word choice is remarkable. Cliches are banished. Such an intriguing read. Best wishes, Brian
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Date: 5/11/2021 4:37:00 PM
Congratulations on your top win. BW ~ Mala
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Date: 3/26/2021 7:30:00 AM
Wow.. painful to read! This is certainly graphic and penetrates the emotions, but I'm none to certain of the pain's origins... it's a definite stab at the attention, breathless and broken, with waves of color - red mostly.. crimson flow... gushing pain, it roars to life with a piercing scream. God bless you my friend.. .great writing, God bless you always, Love, Gina
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