Glimpse

Staring into the mirror
I was searching for my soul
But the girl who looked back at me
Just wasn’t whole
De-spirited and bruised
By life’s wear and tear
Bound by chains of relationships
Her own desires stripped bare
‘This wasn’t how I used to be
My reflection used to smile at me
Where is the girl that I used to know?
With dreams of her own and her own heart to follow
With wings on her feet
Not these marks of age
Her whole life ahead of her
Not at this stagnant stage’
Oh! She left the mirror long ago
Is now just a picture on the wall of your soul
Captured by the gilded frames of time
Her beauty you can admire, but can’t claim as mine
What’s in the mirror is what’s left of you
To touch and feel and reach out to
Forget the girl that used to be
And make your life into something real!