Osamu’s Mirror

    Osamu’s Mirror (first published The Pagan Field 1996)


    See my face
    an imperfect window on this spirit
    slivers of my likeness
    on shattered and bruised glass

    Touch my body
    a perfect shell
    for my artistic ego
    a woman’s dream in a man-slave
    cut
    beat and tie
    punish and bleed for
    me for my
    for our beauty

    See my mask
    a theatre dance
    on a private stage
    I have given my very life
    to play-out this role

    Touch this mirror
    cold
    like a polished lake of ice
    reflect my hand
    my black eye
    my lover’s poison veil
    ecaf desrever ym

S. Downes
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