Tag: reflecting
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Identity Crisis
What makes you you? The things you’ve seen? The lives you’ve touched? The where you’ve been? If you woke without your memories, Tell me, who, then, would you be? Would you still be you? Could you ever know for sure? Or would you relinquish all that came before? Know this: Who you have been is…
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Reflection
A monkey saw its reflection In an oak framed mirror The contours of his visage Were refined The glass was crystal clear Which filled his mind with fear “How dare he have a nicer face than mine?” He picked up a stone And threw it at the mirror It hit the glass and bounced down…
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The Edge
Where do I go from here? Standing at the edge of my future in fear Reflecting my past in my tears? The now presents itself shrouded by a cloak of darkness, Its stealth preventing my freedom, Its starkness inventing the reason that I live without breathing, I dream without sleeping and I’ve stopped without ceasing,…
Serena Malcolm 