brigits_flame: A Retail Store Mirror World
Title: A Retail Store Mirror World
Word Count: 107
Notes: This was written for the brigits_flame August competition; the topic is "Smoke and Mirrors."
Imagine a world of retail store mirrors:
Stare into a frame,
And what do we see but
A skewed facsimile of life smiling
Radiantly back at us.
Where Narcissus, who looked into still waters
And never glanced back,
Is only but a man.
And Hera, that vainglorious goddess,
Merely another woman.
Every face in the crowd appears to itself
Unblemished,
Perfection.
Only upon strangers do we lay this stern judgment:
Reality.
Only to others do we whisper truths,
Thinking of more and more and more truths.
All the while a reflection of mirrors shines upon
More and more and more mirrors. And all we see are
Lies.
Word Count: 107
Notes: This was written for the brigits_flame August competition; the topic is "Smoke and Mirrors."
Imagine a world of retail store mirrors:
Stare into a frame,
And what do we see but
A skewed facsimile of life smiling
Radiantly back at us.
Where Narcissus, who looked into still waters
And never glanced back,
Is only but a man.
And Hera, that vainglorious goddess,
Merely another woman.
Every face in the crowd appears to itself
Unblemished,
Perfection.
Only upon strangers do we lay this stern judgment:
Reality.
Only to others do we whisper truths,
Thinking of more and more and more truths.
All the while a reflection of mirrors shines upon
More and more and more mirrors. And all we see are
Lies.