balmy sphinx
I’ve walked the rocky roads full of bear traps and death,
And I’ve travelled,
Seen other realms,
Realms where she can hurt me
And realms where she can’t.
I’ve walked through the mirror and now I’ve returned to a familiar place but still I am,
Still faced.
looking at what is supposed to be my reflection
But instead it is her again and she is Kicking and screaming bellowing her hurts that are mine.
But I keep her in there because it’s easier to pretend she doesn’t exist,
that I don’t exist.
Still faced in the production of horror before me.
Depravity meets me
and tries to eat me
I run,
unknowingly throwing myself into another cowardly mistake.
When she’s screaming from the other side of the mirror
I’m still faced,
Because I’ve screamed,
And the mirror never breaks
I beg to be free
As does she
And so I return still faced and tired
I have fallen to my knees and accepted my fate.
her jaws crush my skull
It was then i realized I was not fearful
But warm,
And so I become one with horror
To embody balance
To become one in myself
And so love begins to radiates from my heart
It comes no longer from the other side of the mirror
But from me.
I am one.
pearl tiger
heavy quiver
