We call them reflections
because they work like mirrors,
you see,
they can only be understood backward.
*ECNALUBMA*
For your safety these images too-
are closer than they appear.
We also call reflections memories,
because we are re-minded again
of something old we want new again.
The intoxication from nostalgia
so comforting-like an addiction
forgetting-
the last time…
Memory is reflective,
returning its light to insight,
when one remembers to stop and think-
if this has happened before,
mirroring another time, you saw, you see
reflecting upon,
the memory of the old you.
Composed 4/21/15.
Image of painting by Frank Markham Skipworth [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons, 1911 'The Mirror'.
