ON REFLECTION
Who is that in the mirror
staring back at me
With wrinkled, sunken, tired eyes
It somehow looks like me.
But where's the clear blue sparkle,
The open gaze of youth,
The hope that used to shine there
Seeing honesty and truth.
These eyes hold only anguish,
Sadness and hope lost
They've been dried out
By a billion tears
In these eyes I see the cost.
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Posted: Jan 2018
About this poem:
I wrote this poem in a particularly painful period in my life. I hadn't paid much attention to myself for many years and one day I just looked in the mirror and this poem sprung to my mind
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Little cat what are you at as in the woods you go,
Are you chasing birds and mice I'd really like to know.
You wander back when you need food though you really are quite fat
Then jump up on my knee or go to sleep upon the mat.
Little cat what are you at for two days you've been gone
I've looked in the house and searched the woods you've never stayed out so long.
Oh little cat at last your back and you look so very thin
If you could only speak I'd like to know where you have been.
Ah! Now I know my precious pet I followed you to where,
through the hedge in an old wood box four tiny new kittens lying there.
You really were a clever cat you didn't make a fuss,
Just had your kittens by yourself and then came home to us.
Wrote
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Posted: Jan 2018
About this poem:
Wrote this after my cat vanished for a couple of days, had four gorgeous kittens nearby and eventually brought them home.
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