The Face In The Mirror

last night she saw a face in the mirror,

with her failing memory she tried to remember,

she thought ‘the face looks familiar’

as it reminded of a beautiful girl many years ago,

but the face here looks wrinkled,

the hair all in silvery gray,

‘Is that me’ she thought for a moment,

‘but I am not so old’,

‘or do I actually look so old’,

she falls into deep sadness .

she remembered her youthful days.

when she could cast a spell,

with her beauty around.

even now sometimes she dreams,

where she finds her beautiful reflection,

captured in the old mirror.

This indeed was her testimony,

how happy she feels,

reliving those days,

when she basked in the glory of her beauty,

while the world stood in awe,

when her dreams ends abruptly,

she finds herself staring at the stark reality,

which is far from being beautiful,

the wrinkled face tells more than her life,

it tells the roadmaps of her journey,

she surely has earned her wrinkles well

each line on face telling a tale,

for living all those years on earth,

looking the way she looks perfectly perfect,

away from the lies and deception

unraveling her real face

to the world with pride

without any secrets

without any mask

being beautiful inside out .

She looks as her reflection

one more time with self love

and says “ I know I am beautiful’.

Madhumita Sinha

Madhumita Sinha is an HR professional .She is passionate about poetry , panting and photography , the three P’s of her life that completely keeps are busy . She is a published author of two poetry books ‘Heartbeats ‘ and ‘Bits and pieces of me’ . she has contributed to 11 anthologies out of that 3 are international anthologies. she writes for a lot of literary magazines and journals worldwide from time to time .She is a true nature enthusiast and her poetries are greatly influenced by nature.