Withered Image

14-12-04

I’ve decided that
My reflection will never show
Who I am inside.*
The beast has triumphed over
The beauty in me.
The world sees only my ugliness- and shudders.

Prince Charming,
Don’t bother coming for Snow White.
Her death is no illusion.
Can’t you tell
When you look at me?

Will sleeping beauty ever awake?
I think she is content to lie
To escape the trials of this world,
No, the world did not fall asleep with her.
It stayed awake to speculate her weakness.
Is that why I cannot sleep?
My body lies, yet finds no relief?

I know not the reason,
But I know that I am
Unhappy at the world,
How it sees what it perceives to be me.

* I was still thinking about the song Reflection in Mulan.