I hate mirrors.
I cannot longer find pleasure
staring at my own reflection.
There are times that I won't quit
staring at it for too long;
a very long lasting moment
withoutpausenorcause
that bends my will,
that forces me to think to myself:
"Look at him and look at you".
As if by staring at the replicated image
would allow for me
to develop its understanding;
"Look at the faces of the thes...
I started out with many,
people said; I wish I would've believed.
A mouth spoke, it said:
"days go by, but yours are many".
Then lost all of them, but one;
when I got carried away:
That day I found a man out in the city,
he spoke to me in prose, I heard;
his skin was black like wrapped in night,
I saw, he showed me,
he skipped that part; said I forgot,
I couldn't prove;
then bargained for li...
I tried to say farewell,
but I didn't speak his language.
I searched for ways to say 'don't leave',
but I didn't speak his language.
I browsed the world; its lands and seas
to web with lies the truths I hid.
Then hid my tongue behind my teeth,
and said I got no tongue
but showed my teeth;
he saw I lied, but didn't know
there was a tongue, he didn't see
a trail of lies I web and hid,
a trail of...