Moments of Time: In Front of the Looking Glass

I see me, I see me.

I can not see through me.

Dark hair and those dark eyes that

Fail to comprehend meanings they witness.

An obstacle within myself – the Byronic hero.

A reflection that surely must know.

How is it my perception became so blurred?

Not understanding my own mind is assured!

I see me, I see me.

I still can not see through me.

Need I advice from Mother, nay, human nature

Wordsworth! Give me your cure!

I read your words, such natural words,

And I can see, yet am still not heard.

By others, yes, they hear me loud.

But who cares for them whilst I’m in this dense cloud?

I see me, I see me.

The physical finally starts to fade, but how slightly!

A bird’s song commences and I’m forced to glance away,

I only hear you Nightingale and you are so far away.

Need I sing in order to perceive?

Or is that song with meaning deceived?

Sing a song encompassing ignorance?

No, it is too late to be pure, a hopeless chance.

Who will satisfy this desire,

Quench this thirst and feed this fire?

Must I look for a guide?

I already have two beings – one on each side.

I see me, I see me.

Yes! I can see through me.

All that embodies my being

Is visible, no longer teasing.

I stand in front of the looking glass,

Suddenly absent of human mass.

I can see through me, I can see through me.

And I feel my fear rising as I realize

I can not see me, I can not see me.

One response to “Moments of Time: In Front of the Looking Glass”

  1. I love love this. “I see me, I see me” is the delighted self-recognition we all need

    I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
    Whatever I see I swallow immediately
    Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.
    I am not cruel, only truthful‚
    The eye of a little god, four-cornered.
    Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.
    It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long
    I think it is part of my heart. But it flickers.
    Faces and darkness separate us over and over.

    Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me,
    Searching my reaches for what she really is.
    Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.
    I see her back, and reflect it faithfully.
    She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.
    I am important to her. She comes and goes.
    Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.
    In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman
    Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.

    -Mirror, by Sylvia Plath, 1961

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