“Blank Mirror”,

2025 January 17, 20:41 (rev. 2025 January 19, 16:33)

Just this morning, as I washed the night away,

I glanced at myself through my mirror’s glass.

Inside of it was a handsome young man from past days,

And I studied him intensely as he looked back.


A ghost of my former self?


“Hello? How did you appear in my reflection?”

But he did not seem to hear or care,

Simply staring as if he was watching a resurrection,

And leading me to ask: “Who’s there?”


Who could it be?


His hands sprang out of the frame,

Grabbing onto my collar and pulling it.

He replied, “You will never again be the same.”

I desperately tried and succeeded to get free of his grip.


What do I really see?


I rubbed my eyes and blinked profusely,

Yet was only met with my image gazing through me.


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