I don’t spend a lot of time with mirrors
not the usual kind any way
I suppose some days, there are things
you’d rather
not see
extra little lines and creases
time’s tiny little footprints
making their tracks
across
your face
on the days I do wear make-up
it is necessary I guess
to have a look
to be sure, I have covered up
and enhanced
a little bit
in the right spots
but then,
I can turn away and not look again
as I know, It is far too easy
and in our nature
to pick oneself
to
pieces
As a result of a nasty little virus
that recently took up residence
and rendered me virtually speechless
for a few days
I have been left with a wheezy ticklish
sort of cough
and now it seems,
my lips
have exploded
in a dastardly array of cold sores
how very cruel!
So
here I am
at the mirror
wondering what it is
causing my body
to be so ungrateful?
I have an engagement tomorrow
to go out
and next weekend
again
and then, in a very short week
again
perhaps then,
I am internalizing
a little
‘social’ stress
and it is possibly
and quite literally bubbling
out
of my lips
Or maybe this is all a sly trick
to keep one’s vanity in check
(no delusions of perfection here!)
Or maybe,
I’ve just had a virus,
laryngitis and now
a few cold sores
and who really needs this mirror anyway
I don’t put my faith in you
the mirrors I prefer
are my heart
my mind
windows
the sun, and
the sky
I can see my beauty in
a flower
in a smile
in the lyrical song
of the little wren
I see myself
in the gentle
and
the kind
and sometimes
in the
courageous
‘Unless you look closely,
you can’t really see them’
my friend says to me,
from her kind heart
I am hardly bothered by what you
might see … can see,
they are there
most assuredly there
such is life
there are worse things
and aren’t big plumped up lips
rather desirable
these days
besides, I am through with
looking at myself
in this lousy piece of glass
if you have nothing nice to say
my garden
is calling me out
in the sweetest of tones
and my smile
(bumpy as it might be)
is reflecting
it’s
Beauty ♥