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The Lady In The Mirror

There once was a lady      
who became trapped in a mirror      
her vanity her down fall      
she needed a wake up call.      
       
Believing she was sheer perfection      
one day while primping and preening      
she was sucked into a portal of darkness      
stuck behind the looking glass      
for being in love with her own likeness.      
       
Where she could no longer      
see her reflection      
this was fortunate for her      
for in this realm her face was hideous      
just like her insidious nature.      
       
She could still gaze at the world      
through the mirror      
groaning inside herself    
at all the beautiful men and women she saw there.      
       
It shone their beauty within      
while she remained a thin      
wraith of herself.      
       
She would tap and scream        
at the looking glass      
hoping to get there attention      
but they never heard her or saw her reflection.      
       
Then one day      
a man saw what he thought was a phantom      
after a thousand years trapped      
true beauty in the lady had manifested.      
       
The man fell in love with the lovely phantom    
gently kissed the mirror and freed her      
her former vain self would have seen him as unbecoming      
but gazing at his soul from the other side of the mirror      
she saw him as handsome.      
       
He told her he had dreamed of such a lass      
for what seemed like forever      
a true beauty from within and without.      
       
Her vanity left behind in the darkness      
she was finally in love        
no longer enamored by her own likeness.
Written by crimsin (Unveiling)
Published | Edited 15th Oct 2011
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