mirrors

dear friend,

i'm learning
that mirrors are compelling
things -
and then i stand and
i stand
in complete reflection
in complete summation
the flux made whole
the silent, languageless composition
of body

i'm also learning
the shame of
disintegration
of constantly negotiating
being and becoming
of sometimes pretense
of sometimes lie
of sometimes overstepping airs
of sometimes
over-spilling
of sometimes
being and becoming at the wrong places and
wrong times

i'm also learning
places that rescue shame
places that make pathways out of guilt
places of Understand
places of Overcome

i'm also learning
escape
i'm also learning
staying

perpetual
impermanence

but
then the mirrors turn on us
then we turn on ourselves
to see the genius
of the flux made whole
the silent, languageless composition
of body
the relegates of language
of seeing things Exact
and
silenced forever by words