What the Water Remembers

1. That there is no end nor order.
2. I have never seen myself like I have seen you.
3. The mirror of the river, a forever witness.
4. People, fields, loves passing by.
5. The wall to keep out unwanted elements. People’s scrawling all over it – a bird, a broom, an eye, symbols for various isms, a heart.
6. Love is a dog. Contempt, its bone.
7. I still cannot find myself in the mirror.
8. The windows in apartments these days are equipped to cancel noise.
9. The mirror sees me without pain or pride.
10. A fly still got in.
11. That time of day when the shadow swallows me.
12. And the river refuses to carry my reflection.
13. I love you, despite the chaos in my brain.
14. The windows are shut and searching for me.
15. There is a mirror where the road bends to shows what to avoid to prevent a crash. The mirror showed only you even though both of us stood in front of it.
16. My reflection must be tired. Of looking at itself.
17. At best, we experienced each other’s likenesses.
18. That part of the river where it becomes so clear that the real world inverts in it.
19. The more I wait, the more I reflect.
20. You saw me in the mirror even though I was nowhere near it.
21. Was it not me that came before the shadow?
22. Each morning, I step into the shower for the rivulets to remind me of who I truly am.

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