Salt

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inner workings

I've broken all my mirrors

     Living here in this place

It's just too painful to see my reflection.

     You know those mornings

when you wake up and hardly know

          your own name?

They used to kill me.

          Waking up

              Looking in my mirror

And for a second believing that

               there existed another.

          Another just like me.

What joy,

      What happiness...

Until I remembered that it is

      only myself reflected.

Silly me.

      No one is like me.

A fact which saddens me much.

      But I suppose it would be cruel

To wish this burden on another.

      To walk inside this skin

which is pleasing enough

      But to know

that is where one must stay...

       Inside

   Inside and alone

Author's Notes/Comments: 

7/3/01

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Jerome Burdi's picture

We start life off within ourselves.As the journey goes we become products of our enviroment.Our enviroment tries to steal our true identity,masking it in commercials and slogans.Molding us into flag wavers and soul searching kneelers.If you truly know who you are inside your life can be lived!