mirror
peer into a puddle inverted, a reflection of yourself
a shallow depth misleading, the waters dark as a trench
visions of twisted fate, parts too repressed to surface
a peek into your inner psyche, for what purpose?
about this poem
when i wrote this, i was thinking of Elizabeth Bishop's poem "Insomnia." i feel like so much of the imagery is visceral that it stayed on my mind for a long time. it's definitely one of my favorites. so in this poem i used the puddle reflection as a means of self-reflection, while also peering into the repressed mind. it's also about how sometimes i introsepct too much, at that point i have to ask what the point is to keep rationalizing and intellectualizing my struggles and myself instead of feeling things
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