1348 - Reflections

 

The Sunday Whirl presents twelve words for us to use in a creative writing piece.  

This weeks words are: 

splinter, steaming, shadows, old, mirror, rose, honey, crow, edge, gaze, stone, ghosts 

Reflections.

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. 

-- Keanu Reeves

I don’t like mirrors.

They should be splintered, damned.

At best, left to the bathroom’s steaming effects.

Each day I see the world but not as it sees me

Rose tinted glasses, milk and honey.

I gaze at young girls and enjoy their beauty

They see me and think he’s a nice old guy.

At my age I am on the edge of joining

The ghosts who inhabit the shadows.

Crows will sit mournfully on my headstone.

And so back to mirrors, inforced reflection,

This guy in front to me, who is he?

Where has he been, and whence going?

The evidence is before me.

I don’t like mirrors.

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