Reflections of a Stranger


By Lina



sometimes I look in the mirror 
don't ask me why 
look past that image 
through the brown of my eyes


as if it where some else I watch her move see how calculated to herself be true

from one game to the next gathering what she needs it ain't personal a girl's got to feed

learned how to manage, even though young how to get up and how to grow strong no wing to keep dry under no shelter from the storm they were both called for seems God needed them more

so forgive me when your time is up who's to say how long it ain't personal just time to move on seems ineviatble the pattern has emerged self fullfilling prophecy by speaking the words

heartless and cold this place can be the past does haunt sometimes relentlessly

I look at the greenery that I surround myself with and in it's leaves I often drift forgetting the past in the past it will remain like the garbage bags that time can not decay

I trudge forward happily it seems for great things await me I have grown wings



Lina 1-22-02
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