Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Smoke and Mirrors





Self-perception is a tricky beast. 

Smoke and mirrors. Distorted reality.  

Others see what we cannot.  We see things that they do not. 

You gaze and search to try to find some kind of truth in your own reflection. 

You cannot see who you really are as long as doubts cloud your vision. 

The mirrors are murky, opaque and muddy.  

Your image swims over their surfaces, scrutinizing you, as you gawk back. 

Both sizing up the other. 

The width of your thighs, the insignificant swell of your breasts, the boney knees and faded yellow bruised skin.

You see them all.  They veil the rest of what makes up you. 

They have become the truth.

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