Title: The Looking-Glass Self
Source: Weekend Writing Prompt # 142– Looking-glass
Objective: Write a poem or piece of prose in exactly 64 words
Photo by Alex Iby on Unsplash
I’m looking at you through the glass, terrified to try again.
You won’t accept easy answers, repeating I’d be a fool to expect a different future.
Life’s only promise is my broken heart will never mend.
No one tells you how quickly epidemics spread, cuts you down, becomes your home.
Evaporated dreams reflected inside my tortured head makes me question: Was it ever real?
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Keep on writing.
Jo Hawk The Writer
i read this a few times and each time it gets more powerful. Feelings left to fester becoming an emotional scab and we pick at it till it bleeds, yet still no answers why we treated in such a way. I like how you used the words epidemic and torture in this piece, the mirror mask was a protection form the world but not from self. Or I could have got it all wrong inside my own head!! Either way, this is truly exceptional from you Jo.
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Gina, you are very perceptive. So many thoughts were racing through my head as I wrote this piece. The photo is evocative of the images in the news of the coronavirus. I am delighted you enjoyed it.
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I sort of guessed it was alluding to the situation here. We are on high alert but things are not critical. Yes really enjoyed this writing Jo.
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Yes, there are 2 cases in the hospital I drive past weekly. A little too close to home.
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Oh not good!
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Very powerful emotions!
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Thank you, Sadje. 🙏
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A pleasure 💖
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Thank you for sharing. ❤
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Excellent piece with profound melancholy, and what a scary photo!
Thanks for sharing this with us at the Go Dog Go Cafe today, Jo!
Stephen
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My pleasure, Stephen, and thank you for your kind words. 🙏
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Always
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Powerful! I especially loved that last line!
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I am delighted you enjoyed the piece, Robin. Thank you. ❤
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I’ve been hosting a first sentence prompt for a while now and ran across this prompt so I joined in with my own 64 words. Yours is interesting, I like it!!
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Thank you, Dee. I am glad it struck a chord with you. 🙏
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You’re most welcome and I invite you to link up with me each month with your own short story 🙂
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