A Conversation With the Mirror

“Do you talk to yourself often?”


 

“I suppose so.”


 

“Does it ever get lonely?”


 

“Oh heavens no!”


 

“What better company is there than the one who knows me best?

What better judgement is there than the voice from your own head?

I’d rather be in terrible pain than ever be brain dead.

It’s impossible to understand others, so I got to know myself instead.”

MMSwrites

IL

13 years old

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  • Spray-Tanned

    Why did you have to hurt us?

    Again?

    Again?

    ‘Cause when I was young

    there was a chance

    a chance

    to be free

    a chance to see a woman be

    something new and

    different

  • Going

    I have a plan

    I am

    I am

    I’m running so fast

    going nowhere

    just going

    forever

    I won’t stop to catch my breath

    I won’t stop for life or death

    I’ll keep going

    going

    going

  • Inert

    I know

    pitiful laughs and lies

    and joys and cries

    and love and skies

    that are most breathtakingly

    blue


     

    I know

    the good and sad

    the ugly and bad

    the boiling mad