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Dear reflection

Dear reflection, 

As you are still, you seem so far away, 
hollowed eyes with an abundance of nothingness to say, 
Yet power lifting as if you are sun-flooded with strength,  
The voices you held a tight chain on, have begun to cave in, 
shriveled up in your silence, dried up patience, 
wearing a trail of salt behind the face of war, 
like the night with a sky full of clouds yet emptiness, 
It’s as if you’ve drowned in the efforts of convincing, 
and caving in has been a toxic pain to live in, 
to be the piece of object that brings stability underneath the legs of a table, 
Forget what you dream for, do what you’re made for, 
solutions appear much clearer challenging the edges of a blade,
You have slept with spine baring strains while it was not meant for,
forged shapes of hope without the canvas to paint on, 
Seasoned soul in a violent form, 
I hope one day all your labor outlay the love you’ve shown.

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