Shelly Wiseberg

Seeing Truth

The mirror of oneself
shows the true face of reflection
in wholeness and in fragmentation
it shatters all images of illusion
of perfection in glass
frozen in time
icy in stare
showing all lines of imperfection
etched in deep wrinkles of sorrow
frowning your brow
thinning your lips
with an aging smile of wisdom
worn from many lifetimes
from unmasked honesty
through slivers of glass
in reality.

December 2007
Red Pulp Underground