Growth



“What,” he asked the mirror,
“do you want?
How can you say
you need to have your way,
when you don’t even know what you want?”

“I,” said the lips in the mirror,
“want to live.
I want to get out and play,
say what I have to say,
and know to whom my heart I should give.”

The man looked in the mirror,
with tears in his eyes.
He felt his hope fade,
living mistakes he had made,
as he watched the boy in the mirror wave goodbye.

/ thorne