{"id":7899,"date":"2025-05-29T18:58:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T22:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pallimpsest.ca\/?p=7899"},"modified":"2025-06-06T17:50:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T21:50:55","slug":"the-mirrors-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pallimpsest.ca\/?p=7899","title":{"rendered":"The Mirror\u2019s Face"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Mirror\u2019s Face<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I have lived so long<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without a mirror to see my face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No reflection of the tears on my cheek<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nor the softened brow and smile <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That comes from communion with my heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have not recognized myself until now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was a stranger, wandering alone<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without even my reflection for company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a lonely journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It weighed upon me<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And made me more than sad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Try as you might<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You cannot break my desire<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To seek out the gold amidst the dross.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is just my way, for now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I do not know if I was born to it<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or absorbed it with the song and verse <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That accompanied me all my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now it is mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can turn my face to the sky<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And stare into the naked sun without fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I surround myself<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With sympathy and empathy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For all things living or inanimate,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A sheltering cloak that keeps dark creatures<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From my door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If I turn the mirror around<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To reflect your own visage,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you see the same things<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That I perceive?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you feel the same touch <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of the sublime that so delights me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you sail with the clouds<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On galleon wings and revel in the joy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is there for the taking?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I would convince you of all these things<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I had both time and tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But time grows short<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And these tools are dull<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And I must go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Mirror\u2019s Face I have lived so long Without a mirror to see my face. No reflection of the tears on my cheek Nor the softened brow and smile  That comes from communion with my heart. I have not recognized myself until now. I was a stranger, wandering alone Without even my reflection for company. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213552057,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38787,9802],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-poetry","category-my-work"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdzkeJ-23p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pallimpsest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pallimpsest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pallimpsest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pallimpsest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/213552057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pallimpsest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7899"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pallimpsest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8079,"href":"https:\/\/pallimpsest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7899\/revisions\/8079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pallimpsest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pallimpsest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pallimpsest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}