Reflecting Reflections
My eyes meet my gaze at the sight of myself
A person I do not recognize
A person I do not know
I look into me and try to find
The person I was
The person I knew
She blinks as I blink
She shakes her head side to side as I do
She is a reflection of me
Yet she is not
There is an emptiness in me
A vault with nothing to keep safe
A flame extinguished by this nothingness
And a life filled with this smoke
And I wonder
And wonder
Wonder
It feels all too surreal
Yet tangible and reminding
Of the consistency of being volatile
And the remorse of being freed
I trace back to this person again
Gazing beyond the ebony eyes
Beyond the imitation of myself
Only to find everything shatter
And multiply
And ruin
Into these shards I look again
Only to find my world shatter around me
And me around the world
Where this time
I do not know if I can piece back together
The past that was me
And the present that is us.