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  • Poem: Reflection – 03/07/20

    Poem: Reflection – 03/07/20

    Sometimes you can tell
    what is lingering beneath
    the surface,
    the shining reflection
    stares back at you,
    
    and you understand
    you’re that person
    who wants and needs 
    to express her existence,
    through illness, 
    through wellness,
    which status, 
    it does not matter,
    
    your arranged words
    determine the
    careful revelations of 
    your circumstances.
    
    You then wipe the
    reflection aside,
    slap the surface away,
    dig desperately
    through the lake where 
    memories lurk,
    until you discover
    
    bones and meat
    and elbows and toes
    and further down
    your treasures:
    
    your sparkles,
    your fizz,
    your fairy wings
    which helped you rise
    and fly lightly around the globe,
    
    that light which had dragged
    many unfortunate moths, 
    toward their ending flame.
    
    Yet you are far more intelligent,
    you won’t allow yourself to burn,
    with your wings and sparkles,
    you sprinkle your 
    considered phrases and words,
    
    and then fly up and away, 
    your tales are no longer unheard,
    laden with surprises,
    won't you continue to sparkle and shine?
    
    © 2020 Lauren M. Hancock. All rights reserved. 
    Image by Erica O. from Pixabay

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