Blank
Look at it.
Look deep into it.
Be it blank, be it slated,
be it written, be it etched.
Traced, erased, replaced, misplaced.
Regretted, upsetted, mended, tended,
toiled, soiled, tilled, milled.
ruptured structured sculpted scraped
raped pillaged admitted or denied
The mirror of fear is always the same.
It reflects your thoughts back.
And you are to blame.
But break gaze with the mirror, look in it no longer.
Only use it when
You must become stronger.
No longer a slave to weakness or doubt
The past has gone and you live on without
knowing the resolution or how it all ends
Until one day it does
and you begin again.
Copyright © Morgan Ballantyne | Year Posted 2016
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