Anthony Hanible

My Mirror Talks

My mirror talks  

In silver sparks  

And shadow marks  

At dawn

It hums my name

A soft strange flame  

I lean upon

It shows my past

A ghost held fast

A fading cast  

Of me

It sings my fears

My cracked veneers

My quiet gears  

Set free 

It bends my light

My half made fight

My almost bright  

New skin

It keeps my truth

My feral youth

My broken proof  

Within

And when I breathe

The glass believes

My shape retrieves  

Its core

My mirror talks

And in those shocks

My shifting locks  

Restore