The Mirror

REQUEST: A poem about finding yourself in someone else

The Mirror

There’s a mirror on fifth ave

I walk by every morning 

Nailed to the wall

Of an old book store

Some days I hesitate

To look at myself

As if afraid to see

Who looks back

There must be so many 

Who walk by the mirror 

Some humble and some vain

All sharing a glance

I stand across from myself 

As so many have before

And I find myself

In a shared moment

With someone else

Though apart

Looking back at 

Ourselves