Welcome to “Writober,” a challenge hosted by Maria at Experience Writing.

Today’s chosen prompt: Mirrors “Mirrors distort images in different ways. This distortion creates a conflict between seeing and believing which causes discomfort. The reflection in a mirror is also reversed, so though you know you are moving your right hand, if you switched places with the you in the mirror, you would be moving your left hand. Mirrors symbolize reversals, reflection, and distortions. What is your relationship with mirrors? Can you think of a time that a mirror frightened you? If you slipped through your looking glass, what would your mirrorworld look like?”

Mirror

Once I paused
to glance
at red hair
curling around ears
wide green eyes hovering
over pointed nose
lips pressed together,
content to know
I was still here.

Today, I brush past,
look away before
the wisp that was once
my brow, my cheek, my visage
reveals walls behind
where I stand
in shadows,
waiting for night.