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Infinite
Two mirrors stand, each facing the other. One is me. The other is she.
What is it that mirrors do?
They catch the light and perfectly
reflect
that which stands before them.
What happens when two mirrors stand face to face?
Cold glass to jagged glass – should be nothing but a lifeless and barren picture.
And yet…When the light is allowed to
shine
between the two solid surfaces, that heaven’s gold
dances
from mirror to mirror. It reveals a hidden corridor of glass, of ascending steps –
infinite
And this must be why they say a friend is a mirror into the soul.
And that must be why when two friends find each other and stand face to face,
what they see reflected in each other is an unending tower of glittering glass steps
endlessly rising, building, aspiring – toward a peak that is
infinite
Because my mirror, she shows me that what’s inside of me
is a capacity, an ability, a beauty that is
infinite
She sees my dents and scars and stories. She bends and bounces back the light
to reflect them back to me as a possibility that is
infinite
I – who so easily catches any light and reflects anything so easily caught by light –
see in my mirror a reminder
that I am not merely made of a hundred broken shards or a thousand cracks to be covered,
but no…
I am made of a thousand glittering curiosities and a million memories to be discovered.
And that reminder, it is better than gold. It is
infinite
Two mirrors stand, each facing the other. One is me. The other is she.
What is it that mirrors do?
We catch the light and let it
dance
across ourselves. And we see a hidden depth reflected on once empty surfaces
infinite.
In her I see me. In me I see her. In all that we are I see
infinite
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all friends have ups and downs, and i recently went through a harder down with one of my closest friends. This poem is a reflection (haha no pun intended) on what our friendship means to me at the end of the day.