Mirror Girl

Poem-a-Day Challenge, Day Two! (This is for Monday, I forgot to post it!)

Mirror Girl

happy days and

happy nights fell day

after day in her world

of smiles and warmth

emanating from within

her very being

she’d never seen such a

joyful heart and

with confusion pouring

through her eyes, she 

noticed a reflection

she was her,

the mirror girl

not quite sure who

truly existed in

the crystalline pool of

ever-fooling mirages

she was burning,

flames of what she could

be contradicted mirror girl

who hid beneath the

cool waters with

embers for her innocent

soul, yet she was

her upside down—

an unchanged image displayed

from a worldly

viewpoint

she was never convinced who

the others saw, for

different times meant

different images

sometimes she managed

to let herself drown

in her ever smiling

           ever lovely

persona

forget to breath

forgot to

it was all too easy

to be unreal

but more real still

for the good of

some in her world

who saw and needed

the light in her

she hoped one day she’d

truly drown, following the

light into the mirage

like a mirror weight

to show the world what

they needed to see

and never come

up for air

~Olivia