Mirror Image

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I wrote this poem after an experience that involved me looking in the mirror, which I don't normally like doing, looking hard at my image and trying to find traces of the younger me. I then closed my eyes and in my imagination I was the child looking at the older image. It was a weird feeling as both the child and the older person both thought that the other one felt that they were superior to the other. I then opened my eyes and realised that the image in the mirror was both the child and the me now.

I’m looking in a mirror, I’m window shopping For what I used to be. I’m closing my eyes, I’m letting go, Trying to see. I remember when I was a child I often let my imagination run wild, I’m clock watching now, Pray it’s not stopping, how I am longing for you to come home. I can see from your exterior You think you are superior, But you don’t hear the tunes I hear Or see the sights I see, I might ask you to my dominion, Even ask for your opinion, But don’t you ever patronise me. No! Don’t you ever patronise me. I’m looking in a mirror, I’m window shopping, For what I used to be. The image in place Has an old face With a history. Tears fill my eyes, As I realise I am you And you are me. Yes, I realise I am you And you are me!

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