Reflection
by
crystal rozier
Who are you to look at me like that?
What brings you here?
Who owns those sunken eyes piercing me with that fierce glare?
Those two balls of fire brand a distant image into my present
skin.
I have felt your intensity heavy upon me before.
I remember that weight.
Behind the blank blue stare,
I sense a world we once shared.
But where?
Did we hold the same dreams?
What happened to them? What happened to you?
Your heart used to beat with mine,
pumping your passion into the halls of my veins.
I understood your mind; uncovered your soul.
Danced with your spirit.
Those are gone. I don’t recognize you anymore.
Are you here to remind me?
The heat of your presence scalds this shield of skin,
revealing something lost in a deep void.
I look away from the blaze.
LEAVE. YOU ARE DEAD TO ME.
I hid you behind this façade,
pushed you into the black,
suffocating you to muffle the memories of myself.
What I once was.
What you were.
WE WERE.
I am just a body now, a simple outline.
I want nothing more.
This emptiness eases the regret.
How dare you come here to fill between the lines!
I am not ready!
But here you are –
a lioness stalking my every step
until I accept what I have become.
I smash the mirror.