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Student @ University of Abuja
Mirror Me Curious
<p style="text-align: center; ">Mirror me curious</p><p style="text-align: center; ">When you look in the mirror what do you see? </p><p style="text-align: center; ">Do you see the horns and teeth of a monster like I do, </p><p style="text-align: center; ">Or do you see the halo and wings of the </p><p style="text-align: center; ">angel you believe you are? </p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">Mirror me curious</p><p style="text-align: center; ">When you look in the mirror what do you see? </p><p style="text-align: center; ">Do you see the gentle hands and tender smile you claim,</p><p style="text-align: center; "><span style="background-color: transparent;">Or do you feel the shadow it hides beneath,</span></p><p style="text-align: center; ">The hunger that smiles politely before it strikes,</p><p style="text-align: center; ">The darkness you swaddle in the guise of grace?</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">Mirror me curious, </p><p style="text-align: center; ">Do you know mirrors don't lie? </p><p style="text-align: center; ">They show what you refuse to admit.</p><p style="text-align: center; ">Yet you refuse to look,</p><p style="text-align: center; ">And in that refusal, you walk among angels</p><p style="text-align: center; ">While your heart beat with the pulse of a monster.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><br/></p><p style="text-align: center; ">But I see it. </p><p style="text-align: center; ">I always will. </p><p style="text-align: center; "><span style="background-color: transparent;">So, I leave now not in anger, but in clarity sharp enough to cut us both.</span></p><p style="text-align: center; "><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br/></span></p><p style="text-align: center; "><span style="background-color: transparent;">May silence teach you what my devotion never could.</span></p><p style="text-align: center; "><span style="background-color: transparent;">While I greatly await the day you look in a mirror and realize that you are what is wrong with this world.</span></p>
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