Avoiding The Mirror Poem, by Kurt Philip Behm, at My poetic side

For all the lame reasons

I could never be there

Treasured moments

when I stayed away

For all those times

excuses were made

And for whose faults

I’m justly blamed

I’d change them all

in my twilight

To spend my time

making amends

But sadly life gives us

only one chance

To make the right choices

to love and befriend

These scars that I carry

the weight I must bear

For my sins of omission

their punishment fair

As now I sit lonely

away from the fire

Avoiding all mirrors

— where memory conspires

(The New Room: June, 2026)

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