Mirror, Mirror

(German Mirror - Picture Credit - Google Images: frenchantiquestexas dot com)

Does a mirror show the truth?

I could be a girl for all I know,

Or look like one at least.

Might be so ugly,

Or very handsome.

A monster

Or Tom Cruise.

That mirror

Like a television

May have a life

Of its own.

So if that glare

Should ever be switched off

(For any reason)

Then my real image

May resurface:

A scabby, gargoyle horror

Mutated

From atomic war.

Or, some radiant beauty,

Freed from the mirror’s

Shining cell.

Mirrors!

Paul Butters

(This poem has had 122 Views on "Hello Poetry", making it my 5th most popular poem there. Do feel free to give feedback)

(1\10 - 363 Views here now after a sudden surge. Way above all my other poems here. Keyword "Mirror". Is it the picture?)

(2\10 - 462 Views now! Thank You)

Anyone looking for THIS (?):  "Mirror" - song by Lil Wayne featuring Bruno Mars -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZLUa8JUR18

Or -      http://www.mirror.co.uk/ (major newspaper)

Or -      http://www.ukmirrorsailing.com/ ("Mirror Dinghy" Championships)

Or -      http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072443/ ("Mirror" - 1975 film)

Or -       http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1667353/ ("Mirror, Mirror...Snow White" 2012 film)

Or you might want to buy a mirror from Houston, Texas:

http://wip.frenchantiquestexas.com/category/furnishings/mirrors/

Here are some of Lil Wayne's lyrics:

"Uh, With everything happening today

You don't know whether you're coming or going

But you think that you're on your way

Life lined up on the mirror, don't blow it

 (Whoo!) Look at me when I'm talking to you

You lookin' at me, but I'm lookin' through you

I see the blood in your eyes

I see the love in disguise

I see the pain hidden in your pride

I see you're not satisfied

And I don't see nobody else

I see myself

I'm lookin' at the (Chorus - Bruno Mars) Mirror on the wall

Here we are again (yeah)

Through my rise and fall (uh)

You've been my only friend (yeah)

You told me that they can understand the man I am

So why are we here

Talking to each other again?

I see the truth in your lies

I see nobody by your side

But I'm with you when you're all alone

And you correct me when I'm lookin' wrong

I see the guilt beneath the shame

I see your soul through your window pane

I see the scars that remain

I see Wayne

I'm looking at the Mirror on the wall..."

(Variation on the theme I reckon)

(3\10) BTW - Thanks everyone - 531 Views of this post out of 800 for the whole blog.

13\5\2013: I see "Mirror,Mirror" was also the title of an original Star Trek episode about an alternate universe in which they are most brutal. In fact there are many websites with the same name, about beauty treatments etc. A very popular "brand name" indeed.

24\5\14 - 7148 Views. Still don't know why.