Who I am

My glazed, dappled doppelganger stares at me solemnly.

I wipe away the steamy fragments that hides its face.

She scowls.

"You know you're nothing."

I force a timid grin, afraid to voice my own agreement.

"Nothing is better than being everything."

She rolls her eyes sharply, and I wince at the intensity of her eyeballs circling behind her lids.

"Making futile attempts to convince yourself of self actualization isn't anything to be content with."

I sulk, gripping the sink and grinding my teeth,

"I'd rather not be depreciating."

She leans forward, her face reflecting mine,

"You already are."

"Well, I'd rather not be told so by you of all people."

"Why? You're a perfect example of what worthless and rejected looks like."

I stared at her deep eye circles, her livid skin, her tired face lines, the crows feet stretching from her almond eyes and creating branches that sprawled themselves around her lids. Her lips were in a permanent grimace. Her body was quivering, always flinching whenever she heard me utter a word... almost like each word was a sharp glass shard to her heart. Her almond, brown eyes were no longer beady and bright. They were dark and hollow. Her lips were no longer the bright pink they once were. They were grayed and calloused. Her olive skin had faded, and her once rich brown, wavy hair had wilted into thin long tendrils dangling around her emasculated face. 

As I stared intently at her, waiting for her response, she leaned forward ever so slowly, and placed her hands on the other side of the mirror, her soulless, vacant eyes locking my intent, scrutinizing gaze, and whispered mercifully, as if to not allow the words she uttered to wound me;

"Because I... am you."

Reviews

[Julie McCarthy (juliesp..]

This is it !!!
This is it !
Omg you are brilliant this write is so descriptive so eeery honest true
We look in the mirror we see ugly
We see how we feel
This ending middle beginning third quarter three quarter of this story Alll I say all is one of the best Short story I’ve read on this site no joke
Well done!

[sean grey]

amazing piece of writing very good description id love to read a full novel of this

[Samuel Dickens]

When we find ourselves going through a rough patch, it's often good to give ourselves a good talking to. Hopefully, this person will choose to leave the path that has taken him/her to this point.