Freddie Robinson Jr. Poet Dramatic Verse

The Mirror Lied

You were seduced by silicate reflections,
unflattering images
of your perceived epidermal imperfections 
The bedroom mirror showed you
your deepest fear
It's crystalline voice told you
what you wanted to hear
Enhance your beauty
surgically
Change your outer self
cosmetically
But the silicate mirror lied,
it didn't tell you the whole truth
about shedding some of your skin
Once the laser knife goes in,
and parts of yourself 
gets thrown in the trash bin
You won't recognize yourself anymore
Someone else is gonna be looking back at you,
somebody you never knew
This person is gonna sell to you,
that they're better than your natural self
Rearranged celluloid perfection
erases the flaws you always seemed to see
The mirror speaks with superfluous authority,
lying so seductively
The new you didn't erase your inner scars permanently,
but you're the magazine cover you always wanted to be
The lying mirror says you acted so bravely ... 
Enhanced your beauty
surgically
Changed your outer self
cosmetically
You did what the mirror told you to do,
made yourself into a better you
But the beauty you wanted so desperately,
had already began to fade ...
the moment your skin kissed the blade
The silicate seducer tricked you,
played on your vanity,
played on your insecurity
And as your body withers away over time,
the disingenuous mirror is gonna chortle to you: tell you 
that your faded, altered beauty was a self-inflicted crime

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Charmaine Chircop March 12, 2017 at 1:27 AM I do think a lot about what I do when I start to age..The promotions are quite inviting...and the pressure is always growing...to keep purselves forever youmg...but when I think of homeless people..or poor ones...I do believe money should be spent on better purposes..To make a better world..even if its by feeding one mouth..So I guess the beauty one have to find in me would have to go beyond the skin...Exceptional message in your poem.Its inner beauty we have to focus about.

Paul Callus March 11, 2017 at 7:19 AM You are totally correct, Freddie. Unfortunately this is now effecting not only women, but also men. They cannot keep on patching up and pretending that time has stopped for them; nature will eventually take what'd hers! #7 Regards // paul

Doug Vinson March 10, 2017 at 2:21 PM 100% right on! So many times I see a face and think, "What have you done to yourself?!"

Alexis Y. March 10, 2017 at 2:00 AM Hi Freddie, You've penned a powerful and profound piece. Fixing the outside doesn't change who a person is on the inside. True and lasting beauty comes from the inside. The last line sums up this well written piece very well. A without a doubt seven:-) Alexis

Cheryl Hoffman March 9, 2017 at 8:30 PM Seems like a lot of folks today are getting surgically "fixed", especially actresses! Great message about fixing ourselves internally Freddie!~P & L~Che :)