A talk with my mirror

Akanksha Chaturvedi
1 min readAug 8, 2020

A great talk I had
With my mirror

How do I look, I asked
Not how you did a moment ago

Your eyebrows they have risen
Your ears a lot more alert

How do I look, I asked
Not how you did a day ago

Your lips look curled out
Your shoulders seem up

How do I look, I asked
Not how you looked a year ago

Your eyes they swirl into depths
Your nose, it points to the ground

How do I look, I asked
Not how you looked like a decade ago

Your head seems strong
Your limbs more agile

How do I look, I asked
Not how you looked like a lifetime ago

You have a form
A heart and a mind

How do I look, I asked
Same as you always did

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