Inside

I fell
and the mirror
shattered
the shards dug in
deepest red flowed
the image changed
fragmented
and I saw

And what I saw
is how I felt
shattered
for the first time
what I saw
was what is
on the inside
now outside
Posted by Jos

8 comments:

  1. Wine and Words16 April 2010 at 22:06

    "Scattered like memories from the past
    Shattered like a bullet through glass
    I'm in pieces." (Shannon Noll - In Pieces)

    A favorite song of mine. Loved this poem. And when we bleed, we heal...the scar a new reflection of an old wound.

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  2. elderly rock chick16 April 2010 at 22:46

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  3. elderly rock chick16 April 2010 at 22:49

    this is really piercing.

    (i thought i spelt it wrong but in fact i didn't so i needn't have deleted my first attempt!)

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  4. Marion16 April 2010 at 22:57

    This is awesome, just fucking awesome. You managed to put in words how I often feel inside. I bow humbly to your poetic talent. Blessings!

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  5. Shadow17 April 2010 at 13:40

    its healing to sometimes fall and see the shattered pieces... allows us to put ourselves together again...

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  6. kj18 April 2010 at 04:48

    jos, this poem is magnificent.

    i hope you submit it places, because not only have you economized words so effectively, but it's so easy to feel what you feel and understand what you understand.

    i thank renee for meeting you, jos.

    ♥

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  7. Woman in a Window20 April 2010 at 13:15

    I like what Annie of Wine and Words wrote. Let that mass of healing skin rise. Itch it if you have to. Let it take root.

    You are neither simplistic nor shattered to me. You've been wounded but this is not who you are. It is but a part of your whole. Your whole is beautiful.

    xo
    erin

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  8. grete25 April 2010 at 15:47

    Jos -

    “When the inner and the outer are wedded, revelation occurs.” - Hildegard von Bingen

    Yes, piercing indeed!

    Grete

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