Touch: The Journal of Healing
You Ask Me To Be Your Mirror
by Kaveri Patel
You ask me to be your mirror.
How do I look?
I could comment on your
physical appearance or tell you
how you make me feel.
Why such emphasis on outer beauty?
It’s your inner world —
your demons and diamonds
I want to reflect back to you.
Do you know how galactically
beautiful you are —
black holes and stars,
celestial planets.
Who ever said you
were bound by this skin?
Who ever knew scientists
have yet to discover you
and give you a nebulous name.
© 2013 Kaveri Patel
Kaveri Patel is a poet, mother, and healer. She lives and works in northern California, and is currently exploring the phrase, fear is just compost for courage. Her first book of poetry, An Invitation, was published in 2011.
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