Image In a Mirror
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Sketch by Elizabeth Gondolf
inspired by Norman Rockwell's Girl at Mirror
Image in a Mirror
She sits all alone in her bedroom tonight,
and stares in the mirror while dreaming her dreams;
she thinks to herself in the soft evening light,
and wonders why she has no friends so it seems.
Perhaps it’s because of her fashion so bland,
or maybe the reason, her plump podgy face;
her classmates make fun with their barbs out of hand,
and shun her at lunch break, it’s such a disgrace.
She looks at the pictures in teen magazines;
the girls look so chic in their denim and lace,
and all look so svelte in their skinny blue jeans;
their face looking smooth, not a hair out of place.
She thinks to herself, if I just looked like them,
but delicate demons play games in her head.
The room is all dark now as teardrops she stems
while dreaming her dreams as she climbs into bed.
January 23, 2020
Copyright © John Gondolf | Year Posted 2020
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