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by Wetdryvac
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Looking Glass
March 8, 1992
today I looked into my mirror
saw an old man, years etched into his face
sorrow lines plain as laugh lines
ragged and yellow gray
dim light in behind his eyes
I wanted to look away from him
but he beckoned me closer to whisper in my ear
��do not worry �� he said
each word stepping carefully cross the glass
��time is but a fine line
and I wait here for you to slip over ��
I broke the mirror
his face remained painted in my memory
I knew what he was
a portent of things to come
omen of future boding no good
so I waited to build strength enough
a while longer-
��til I could find another mirror
he stood there
gazing back out at me as his dim lights shone
and I could see that I was dying-
but I had to know, leaned in close
whispers in my ears
��take care of all your hungers son
I know that you are my only one
for I have lost the battle won
by most of the rest of the world-
I cannot tell you how to win
you must see it for yourself but son
I can tell you how to loose
I was just like you will be
an innocent in a world of anger
and I tried to join the flow
I was stepped upon, dragged screaming down
flooded, closed up, I never stepped back out-
this is my thin and dying place
oh yes,
like you I am ever dying
not a laugh in a hundred years
I lived a life, though long, of sorrow
I never broke free
I am sorry to tell you like this, my son
but my time is gone as yours begins
and so papered I must travel on
may you face better down die kinder road ��
good-bye I called across the years
thoughtless tears upon our faces
looked into our deadlights,
watched his endless wrinkles fold him away
like so much parchment
a book unopened
to this day I am unsure
word for meaning of word
but though he said no telling of winning
he has
I cannot become more open suddenly
but I can fight his battle
in hopes that I may begin
today
I still cry sometimes
I hit a wall of cold regret and just break down
but unlike the fraught battle, I keep fighting myself
waiting for the day I can be free of this nattering doubt
that like him I will have someone looking into our deadlights
eyes almost closed in wrinkles
telling them not how to win the battle
but how to loose by getting lost inside myself
and letting the years close in
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