Mirror
I guess one could say we’ve been at it for
a while
A ticking clock of emotional
depressant
Represent undeniable textbook
symptoms
Codeine covered happiness
Sickness due to haziness
Raining on a cloudless day
Not an unlit cigarette
Loosely unwritten poems
All flooded when I saw you
I can’t envision two people so similar
With undeniably different precision
An evident uninspiring resistance
To heart felt hugs and kisses
I really miss your smile
How can I make you release
Relive the first of never
Expel demons of untruths
An inconceivable youth
Truth is I actually understand this
phase
Cratered headlights remapping
untouched country roads
Laying on black concrete
while leaves fall upon us
A vague union riddled with
unconscious lyrics
You’re littered with the inscriptions for
prescriptions
To every drugstore in the area, you see
Not enough pills to pop to mend these
memories
Of putrid pupils packed like precise
pennies stacked
Degrees of codeless dreams
on a road-less future
Tragic scene of falling short
Short of witty,
verbiage fueling mindless retorts
Resignation to the glass
A fresh costume of clothes for skin
adaptation
To feel whole
in the venom of separation
Because it all flooded in when I saw you
there
When I looked in that mirror
Reagin Wiklund