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What I Saw Staring Back at Me…
It was dawn
 The sun slightly peering over the peaks 
 The evening lust still lingering hint fully in the air
 Your breath, visible to eye, slow and continuous pattern of exhaling smoke
 Thick and white, like the clouds from above
 Cold down the throat chilling your every word, the air suppressed in my lungs making it harder for me to breathe
 As frigid  polar caps, my hands unable to be moved
 My movements are slow and cat-like
 Watching every step I take, trying not to disturb the beautiful silence that could slice the heart with pain
 The only warm part of my body are streams of tears upon my cheeks
 I  cry like a river
 Letting my body relinquish its demons of solitude 
 But I am not alone
 Here with me is another
 A devil, a threat
 This imposter stands in the midst with I 
 Even though my eyes aren’t subjected to its presence
 It is among me
 My body quakes, my toes curl, and my eyes begin cry melancholy rapids
 My heart is swallowed by pain as I slowly fall apart 
 I take a random step in the forward direction
 Slowly moving toward the small body in front of my path
 Its water is murky, hardly visible from the surface
 I stand on its edge, the presence is among me
 My eyes drift down
 I have found my demon
 It has been with me the whole time
 The presence was staring back at me
 What I saw staring back me?
 My reflection…

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