Duality

To the mirror, I whisper in shame

Show me my face and tell me my name

It lies and tricks me to believe

The man in front is still me

I stare at it in awe, blinking

The eyes are wishful and gleaming

No wrinkles, no scars on the skin

A streak above the chin

Is it a smile or grin?

A man I don’t recognize

 

I reminisce what I had done

Cover my wrath, guilt and sins

With a skin of my own

Now I carry this smiling face

And inside it I hold my life

Wounds that never healed

Tears that were never dropped

Screams that no one could hear

And pain that never stopped

 

I am a prisoner of disguise

Bound by the chains of my creation

I break the mirror in anger

The glass shatters, but the skin remains

I long the forlorn body trapped inside

Like a moth in cocoon

Will I ever be born again?

And will you see me the same?

Reviews

[Mary Christabel George]

A write with so much of maturity.

You have simply amazed me Subin.

Ain't life is full of Ifs & buts?
About the decisions we made & we failed to make with some key role of destiny too?

The poem starts with the cold winter & expresses wonder at the hot summer about the coldness of life.

My favorite line is

"If it is possible to keep in heart what in life never was"

In combination with such profound theme of

"Love someone more than the pain you own"

And outsource thought provoking lines

"And when I shed my skin

Beneath the nerve and bone, with no soul to mourn

Will I turn into stone"

I could sense positive notion in the fact you mentioned

"how would one know

joy from sorrow

if one hath not tasted both"

Thank you so much to make me read this poem.
Keep writing & keep sharing with me dear.