Reflection

[wayward_explorer]

They told me if I stared into this reflection I'd see my true self

I probably should have considered I would not be able to readily embody that

Maybe I shouldn't have looked, but every time I look in the mirror, I see someone I don't recognize

I looked, and I saw someone hated, feared

I saw a threat to the system, a threat to beliefs

I saw someone that many people wished was dead. Someone that many wished was subjugated. Hidden. Shameful and a taboo.

An argument, relational destruction and the end of many assumptions

And yet I can't get it out of my mind

Because I saw myself and she was a kind, beautiful, and daring woman, with someone else's gun to her head

Comments

[emeraldflame]

When I look in the mirror I never know who's gonna show up first because I generally will get a quick glimpse of one of my fictotypes before whatever my actual reflection is (: