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TO THE FACE IN THE
MIRROR
When the mirror was broken, leaving behind an empty frame like a gate to nowhere, I
remembered an old people's saying, that happiness is going to be broken in as many pieces
as the mirror did. And I watched myself in all the shards, to give them back the meaning
of the whole they were coming from, thus cancelling the curse and keeping untouched the
promised image of a happiness to come.
I wanted to share one of my dreams with every
shard, but I couldn't find any to match my love dream, since their edges were too sharp to
fit into a heart shape. And the star-shaped one cried red tears in my palm when I wanted
to give it the dream of flying. And then I understood that my dreams can't exist one
without the other, that I can't break their fragile network.
So, I have given all my dreams to all and every
shard, watching myself reflected in them with the eyes of the one I would have liked to
be... I have given to each of those faces everything I have never had out of what I
have always wanted... And then I closed my eyes and, with the power of the dream, I sent
them far, far away, into the light, to live... to love... to be happy...
I
haven't found out anything about them since then. And sometimes I wonder what their life
is like, what could they have become...
"They"... The sisters of my soul, the
children of light to whom I have given birth
once from the refused light emprisoned in mirror shards... I feel them living somewhere
and I miss them, I miss all those pieces which could not be happy together, inside me, but
only each of them, far away, alone...
The old mirror does not exist any longer. And I don't recognize anymore the old sad face I
see in the bold brightness of the new one.
Old people use to say happiness is going to be
broken together with the broken mirror. Perhaps... But I still hope that one day, from the
mirror waters, coming from far away, along with the memory, one of the happiness' faces,
come back from the light, will smile back to me.
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