Mirror Mirror

• Caitlyn Merkouris, Grade 9
• Poetry
• 2017

It leans on my wall; a silent stare
But through my reflection lies something worse
The illusion you see is what I wear
One glance then paralysed by my own curse

I just can’t look, like fears I cannot face
No sleep, awake I lay, it calls my name
I run and run but it catches my pace
I’m going insane, can’t cope with my shame

But hard to live with and hard to ignore
My shadow of sins, follow day and night
My eyes are too dark for one to explore
For what I have done I won’t see the light

One day it will pass, I’ll forget it all
Until that day it won’t hang on my wall