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(22,251 posts)mine is like a reverse dorian gray painting
MiHale
(12,669 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(32,337 posts)quaint
(4,702 posts)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.
Floyd R. Turbo
(32,337 posts)Sneederbunk
(17,306 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(32,337 posts)Intractable
(1,702 posts)- Rush, War Paint