Mirror

Self Reflectory -- the season, closing of the year, and age have weighed heavily on me this year, it seems.

  

It shivers
at my approach,
each step toward reflection
wrinkles my arrival
distorting is to was til
yesterme falls like bits of anvals
thudding in the sink
to break and curl and disappear
sucked away
to lie on piles of yesterskin
beached upon some yestershore of me

           

Reviews

[Shownashappening]

I think the being overly aware of aging part of life hasn't quite breached the horizon for me just yet at 32, but the time proceeding on with higher horse power part fills a well of existential dread more and more each day.

I've literally only been familiar with your writing for a day and maybe a night but I definiely think I'll stay. Big fan of your voice.

[FlatDaddy]

Hmmm, fan of my voice, you say? I do have my actual voice elsewhere online, but hate to use this site to promote another. Perhaps I would message you if I thought you would like such an invitation.

[Shownashappening]

That would be welcome

[FlatDaddy]

Stand by, please

[Chris Shaw]

Wow, this short poem FD tells me your mirror is not being kind to you at all. It is a well known fact that mirrors don’t lie and are the enemy as we age. I made the mistake tecently of using a magnifying mirror to apply my eye liner. Won’t be doing that again, every line multiplied x 4 lol. Keep away from mirrors, that’s the best advice I can give.

Chris

[FlatDaddy]

Ta, Chris! You are certainly right about that! Mirrors are the enemy! Unfortunately, we do need them from time to time, don't we?

[Samuel Dickens]

I think it may have been Red Fox who said, "Old age sure ain't for sissies" and truer words have never been uttered. Luckily, my mirror is small and doesn't reveal what an old fatso I've become. Well, nature will have its' way, but at least we ain't ded yet.

[FlatDaddy]

Yes, but why does the present now move so much faster than the past did when IT was the present? BTW, I like this picture much better than the last one; that dude looked a little scary -- and a bit like mine from that time.

[ETERNITY]

Wow! That's powerful! Underline powerful!

[FlatDaddy]

Thank you, Eternity.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Another year, another few wrinkles, the mirror lives with us, and like Plath's mirror, it "is not cruel, only truthful."
My 17 year old yesterskin is long gone...No matter how hard I search, I cannot find that beach.
This is a really sharp, tight write.
Nicely done, F.D.
j.

[FlatDaddy]

Why, thank you, my friend. I appreciate this so much.