I've been thinking about some of the recent threads in the Lounge... [View All]

[Haole Girl]

..and I wrote this poem tonight.

It's for some of the women in the Lounge, who are going through difficult times,
and it's for me, too. :hug:


"The Mirror"

She sees her face in the mirror
In the morning light
A wrinkle never noticed before

How quickly the years go by
How difficult it seems to say good bye
To the way her smile could open doors
And the way it feels to be invisible
Much more difficult than before

She thinks of that hat of straw
And the glimpse in the mirror
she saw
with her face beet red
The garden was hot that day
And she laughed at twenty
At the image she saw
And hoped it would be quaint
Or respectable
Or easy
to age
She could not have been more wrong
if she’d been truly insane
And wonders why a person so
jaded
would still feel pain

She quickly washes her hands
Not even looking as she leaves
And knowing sooner or later
She’s going to have to believe
In herself and her strength

Searching deep down inside
she knows she has the will
to survive
She’s used it all along
Though carried by her beauty and smile

Now she truly finds out
what others warned her for years
And she knows she is able
It’s time to face her fears.