02-23-17
The reflection that stares back is not one I recognize. The
lines of time, the roadmap of a life shaken and agitated, devoured by traumatic
occurrences of survival. Every path navigated with varying degrees of defeat
and subsistence. How did this become a
life so unfamiliar at times and at other times too familiar, almost comforting?
Leaving a strike of pain the rises from within so suffocating, yet intoxicating.
One might say devastating, but if you are me, it is vindicating. Knowing the
reflection is one that cannot be impassive from my existence, a constant
reminder that to be victorious means you have slain the demon that eagerly sit in the darkness waiting to consume
you with sorrow and dread, pinning you onto the ground with a hand akin to a hammer,
but not this time…not any time here after.
May you try, and may you fail, as you have watched me do so
many times before. You track that life line to a young girl who was afraid,
alone, yet bidding her time, for this too shall pass she would tell her mind
and body; do not lay duped to what has been taken, but set yourself free for
all that remains; there is so much that remains. Do not be so naive to think
this life will be without darkness, but take comfort in the moments that leave
you breathless, bounded by blimey.
Too often I move through time with a blindness to happiness…wishing,
hoping, my time will come. Tick tock…the clock strikes, go. I run, run so fast
my limbs feel as though they are being ripped from my body. Running toward my life’s
train. But…wait, all this time I have been running for the final destination.
No! No, I scream in my mind. The final stop is the end of my journey. Panicked,
I pull the cord to signal my early departure, it is not the final stop I seek,
but the stop in between the last place and the place I don’t want to know.
No, it is not my time yet, I am slowing. Gently slowing, as not
to miss my sojourn in this life. The reflection in the mirror whispers…here,
stop here. I like this stop, I see happiness and my heart starts to beat again.
Although I am still slowing, yet another life line tracks across my face. Let
it show, relishing in all that is expressions - I lived, I loved, I cherished. It
is one I will embellish with eternal bliss, even though I know it will not last
forever. Decorating this place within my heart with jewels of pride, affection,
and joyfulness. Adorned for better person surely, but it comes to me, so I grab
it, hold it, and keep it for as long as I can.
Until tomorrow, when I see the person staring back at me;
until then will I feel the need to relive the unpredictable opulence of life,
but I will resist residing in the loins of purgatory. My fate, my destiny, my life. Mirror, mirror,
on the wall… may you capture my soul with a glance, may you hold it with time…but
may you also set me free.
