Mirror Mirror

• Ebony Reynolds, Grade 11
• Poetry
• 2013

Mirror mirror can you see
What people think is wrong with me

Mirror mirror is it my complexion
That turns people in the opposite direction


Or are my looks, my smile, my laugh
The reason why I get called daft

And do I really seem to be so frightening
That the people around me bolt like lightning

Am I too fat, too slim, too tall, too small
And why does society have the right to make that call

Is it those around me that tied the noose
The people who decided I should become a recluse

Mirror mirror if this is me
Then my life is pointless, don't you see.

Because mirror mirror you don't lie
Maybe it would be better to die