There are pieces of glass on the floor of my apartment.
Pieces that once belonged to something--my seeing stone.
Once these pieces hung on the wall--the wall of a different home.
Now they lie on the floor. They have always lied, but in a different way before.
They told me I was pretty. They told me I had fame. They told me everything--
Everything was good before the pieces came.
I turned to someone else for comfort. I turned to someone else for advice.
This someone else became my paradise. He told me I was pretty.
He told me about fame. He said everything the pieces did, but under a different name.
I soon became too skinny--or maybe, just too fat. I cut off my oppressors--
I think I changed my name. And I became a different pretty, a different fame--
I played a different game.
I became an avarice for my paradise. So used, so loved--adored.
Even, I dare say, explored. I did something to anger him--I don’t know how,
or when...but it was time to talk to the pieces again...
The pieces told me things I did not want to hear. How my life is drowning
in Paradise. How I should not be an Avarice. How my soul is Muggy
and Unclear.
I went to my paradise...I tried to change the way things were.
The way things are. He threw the vase, the flowers, the punches,
the mirror. My scar...
There’s bloody pieces on the floor of my apartment. Some are mirror...
some are skin. Those pieces used to see for me...
But now they are so scattered, thin. It’s dark. So dark within.
Please tell me what you think
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This is a really excellent inrospective piece, in the truest form that is your style. Everything has different values and possible meanings, in knowing you I think im able to understand most of it, your language was superb, nice and smooth to read and very enjoyable, seeing someones innermost thoughts is the fruit of the devil, so delicate and tempting, very well done Lina.
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Is this a Mirror, mirror on the wall sort of poem? The words are brillany and haunting. Thanks for sharing your gift with us.
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JUDGED!
A wonderful write for the prompt, well done poet.
Thanks for entering and all the best to you in the contest.
Ken -
This is absolutely beautiful...Brilliant.
I was completely absorbed into the person's world when reading it.
Good luck in the contest.
Jenny -
WOW
Full of emotion. Nice flow. Great write!!! Thanks for sharing
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