Mirror

How we see ourself goes a long way to explaining our successes and failures in life. The phydical body is just the shell, some people do a great job at looking good, but are a mess on the inside. Many are as messed up on the outside as they are inside. Mirrors are deceiving too. I look at pictures and see myself in a completely different light than I do in a mirror. That's why it is so important to look deep inside, a quality that we as poets are usually able to do better than most people. Sometimes we are harder on ourselves than we need to be because we try to compare our lives with the lives of people around us. We are who we are, there is no room for anyone else inside of us, so if we are going to judge what we are, then we also have to be ready to make changes if what we see is unsatisfactory. We can see inside where no one else can see, we know our secrets, our failures and our triumphs better than anyoone, so look at the mirror and realize that whoever is looking back is just a superficial, one dimensional apparician that shows you one brief moment of your life, the one you are living right now. It cannot tell you if you have done 1 good thing or a thousand. Write about what is inside you, that is the real you, not the one in the mirror. jj

Ahhh I was just about to comment on this, but I see that Poetryman has already arrived here first and has said what I was going to say...  I agree with him as I usually do... A mirror doesn't show what is on the inside. We know ourselves and who we are on the inside, but usually we see our physical self differently than the others around us... As cliche as it sounds, it's what's on the inside that matters the most. Personality triumphs over beauty. Write how you feel.

I agree with poetry man and Jessica. Good job!