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<HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=8 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Bookman Old Style" LANG="0"> There are:<BR>
So many ups and downs,<BR>
highs and lows,<BR>
goods bads.<BR>
Achievements,<BR>
Disappointments.<BR>
all of these IÆve seen.<BR>
All these IÆve had.<BR>
None other like the one that reached out and slapped me, that night.<BR>
As I walked myself<BR>
half-asleep up the stairs.<BR>
I threw on the light and pulled at the faucet.<BR>
As Always.<BR>
Make the water as warm as it will go.<BR>
Make the shock as minimal as possible.<BR>
And then there it was .<BR>
I looked up.<BR>
The wishing well.<BR>
The shouting inner soul.<BR>
Alive.<BR>
My biggest enemy.<BR>
The mirror groaned and stared at me.<BR>
<BR>
I should have made it poetic.<BR>
For you.<BR>
I could have made it poetic.<BR>
<BR>
Broken it,<BR>
pound at it,bloodied my own two fists.<BR>
Till one of us gave up.<BR>
or<BR>
someone [doubtful] found me.<BR>
I hated that mirror.<BR>
But I didnÆt.<BR>
Shout out.<BR>
I didnÆt.<BR>
Scream and pound.<BR>
I didnÆt pick up the nearest object and<BR>
BAM.<BR>
<BR>
I just stared,<BR>
and saw.<BR>
Asked myself <BR>
æWhy is that quiet,meek,lost,single tear letting itself free now?Æ<BR>
Why have I waken up to the reality of what I am for so long.<BR>
And am now moved to tears?<BR>
Moved to that one tear.<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
I wish I could go on with an answer.<BR>
I wish I could make you feel whole with an answer to that.<BR>
I canÆt.<BR>
<BR>
I can barely recollect what happened past that point.<BR>
IÆm sure I finished my nightly routines.<BR>
And made my way to the only place that comforts me.<BR>
<BR>
Because I woke up in it the next morning.<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
So here I am now, recalling my ups and downs.<BR>
That random day.<BR>
<BR>
Thinking always thinking.<BR>
Wondering.<BR>
When I am going to find it in me,<BR>
to turn that mirror back around.<BR>
<BR>
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