Reflection

I used to love what I saw in the mirror, and now I do not.

Dear reflection,

For years, I loved you,

And you seemed to love me too.

You wrote notes,

Notes filled with everything good.

Your cursive letters, slowly but surely, curled their way around my heart.

With that, your love for me soon became a fact.

I now welcomed your words without question, open armed.

What my young self did not realize was that all love has a cost, 

That there is a chance that I might get hurt.

Then, one day, my life became a story.

A story switched.

Happy beginning, sad ending.

Those words of love that held me together soon disappeared, one by one.

I realized when the last word left,

That I had been stuck in a dream my whole life,

And in one moment of realization, I was in a daze, left alone in a pretty world.

I now know, sadly, that all that love was just a figment of a dreaming girl,

longing for something she would never have.

The curtain was pulled from away from the mirror one day,

And though some days I am thankful for this,

Most days I am not.

Author's Note

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Reviews

[LostInADHD]

Hello.
First off, thank you muchly for the support on my first poem posted here. I appreciate it. Secondly, in your bio you mention you are only 14? Wow! You write beautfiully for someone so young. I sure wish I wrote a little like that when I was your age.
Keep Writing.
-J

[Gianna_Grace]

Thank you so much! I'm still learning everyday how to become a better writer, and I hope I can one day write as beautifully as you did in your poem! Thank you for your kind words, it means a lot to me. :)