Fingers pressed,
Firm and still,
Awaiting motion,…
From the brain wand’ring at will,
Beyond all tactile notion.
Eyes adrift,
Scan and see,
Sights too far from word;
Through glass they hide from mem’ry,
In corners undiscovered.
Tiptoeing.
Wandering.
Matter falls away.
In the mirror unblinking,
She silently floats away.
K. Aldaya, 12/7/17
Picture: Original Source Unknown; https://wallpaperscraft.com/download/girl_mirror_reflection_opinion_87457/1920×1080#
Today she’s so happy she just can’t describe it.
Life seems so perfect, …yet just doesn’t fit.
She comes home and looks into the mirror-land.
She’s happy and knows it, but the shadows are still at hand.
Backward through time she floats on her own,
To the home she’s outrun, where the ghosts are her own.
The walls are closing in, all around, and within.
She can’t escape from herself…
So she breaks the mirror.
K. Aldaya, ’05
Picture: Originally posted by http://zoombies-ate-my-neighbors.tumblr.com/; http://favim.com/image/2281637/
I look at the reflection,
A soul to soul projection.
Shadow of a place,
That hides beneath the face.
I stare in deep ferocity,
With heightened luminosity,
Into the eyes that see,
A door with lock and key.
Open with kind docility,
An unsure bearability,
Of what lies beyon’,
In visions long forgone.
A nightmares’ contribution,
Carries swift persecution,
To the soul that knows,
What this doth expose.
This reflections’ exploratory.
Unexplored interrogatory.
Never. Never. Never.
Will I continue this endeavor!
I know well the destitution,
Of past prostitution.
Trapped in mirror’s reflection,
A lost shadows’ inflection,
Only known by my detection.
K. Aldaya, 10/24/04
Picture: “Mirror Reflection by KimRaceQueen on Deviant Art; http://kimracequeen.deviantart.com/art/Mirror-Reflection-208504447
My Soul is a Lock Without a Key 