Mirror or Self- Reflection

 

I don’t need you anymore

To show me the graying

I need not see it to know I age

 

To help me cover my face

No longer do I desire to hide

Or improve what is naturally beautiful

 

To show me the marks upon my skin

I feel everything within

So why must I see?

 

To help me shave or cut

I have a partner now

To let me know if I missed a spot

 

I do not need you anymore

You are the bane of my day

That forces my superficiality at first light

 

And my vanity before the night

That takes away from our vision

Of who we truly are

 

You do not show me my fatigue

I feel when I have not slept

And my body desires to rest

 

You did not help me with my cancer

You did not show me my seizure

You did not reflect my AIDs

 

I feel, we feel, we do not need you

To tell us we’re dying

Or to tell us we’re alive

 

You serve no purpose but to feed the ego

Forcing us to waste time

As we pick and scrape and peel away

 

While we look into you

Instead of looking into ourselves

We become more hollow

 

The road we choose to follow

Is that of freedom

We will be free of the addiction

 

And live our lives free of you

As we awaken

To all the beauty that lies within

 

There is more picking and scraping and peeling

To do there than ever to be done on the surface

From decades and centuries of neglect

 

It’s time we say goodbye to you

And all that you represent

As we awaken

 

Our beauty is not based on what you see

In the mirror

Seeing from within

 

For within us lies more beauty
Than you could ever show us

In you.

 

By: Nevada Wolf

March 2008