cautious eyes the mirror my face leaning nearer catch a shadow peering disappears only to return leering dim the light as i leave shivers, reflects on what i have seen can it be real this thing that i feel is the reflection i think i see hallucination or reality? mirror reflected netherworld like a silver limpid pool haunts laughing calls me a fool beckons and frightens misunderstood throat, vise tightens grim reaper's hood homecoming reckoning hell to pay beckoning mirror cracked silhouette i remain there yet saddened eyes peering out haunting you from the inside out harvest you when the lights are dim based upon the reaper's whim Sherry Gilles © May 24, 1998