Look
Look there
Do you see?
Do you see her?
There, trapped within the water
Caught in the shimmering mirror-surface
Someone that looks like me; but isn’t
Her eyes are black sockets; she can’t see
Her voice doesn’t carry when she tries to speak
You can see she cries too, but you cannot hear
Her form wavers, dissipates when I reach out to touch her
She looks so sad and lonely, trapped alone in the mirror-surface
She makes my heart ache, my stomach knot, my tears burn my cheeks
I wish I could reach her, comfort her, hold her, tell her it’s OK
But that would be a lie, so I turn away, and I leave her, alone
Trapped in the water’s mirror-surface, she will be there when I return, always the same
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