Mirror Poem by Rajendra Nagdev

Leave me alone
mirror cries, I am tired
what I display
men dislike.

Clothed, they turn naked
when they enter me
I, an honest soul
reflect the nakedness
and face fury.

Truthful to me, to them as well
I don't lie.

Men, blend of black and white
wish to find them milk white
I am sorry,
I have no mechanism in me
to convert black to white
I therefore, am never a preferred friend.

They disown nakedness
they fling me
break me in bits and pieces
then see themselves
hundred times naked.
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