BY ALEJANDRA RESENDEZ
Hello Reflection, how are you today?
But Reflection, she still refuses to say
Another day passes and I come back and see
Reflection, I ask, do you enjoy ignoring me?
She slowly turns towards me with ungraceful ease
She peers into my soul with eyes overflowing with pleas
Reflection softly places her tiny hand on the mirror
Letting it slide down slowly, prints of blood to smear
I step back in horror, my heart stops its beat
My throat chokes from within, sweat from an unknown heat
Reflection opens her red lips as if ready to speak
My thoughts scream at me to release the weak
Confusion is clouding, clustered clots of dust
Reflection is the monster that I just can't trust
She's banging on the glass, it vibrates ready to break
The body I lay in insists to shake
My heart is pounding, seeing her hand thrust out from my chest
A bleeding exterior clutching my heart tightly, breathless at best
A tiny gushing hole she climbs out to be with the rest
-Hello, it's good to be back
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