If I Was A Mirror Poem by Shirley Harrison

Now listen up
if you look
deeply into me, close up
and without your
usual frown
I would see, your lost soul
searching for it's very meaning
I would see, your lost heart
cracked in two
like an egg bleeding it's yolk
your eyes that have wept
for a thousand years
tears for your greatest love
now gone
I would see your private laughter
hidden deeply within your lungs
lungs, now oh so very tired
but
after I'd seen all that...

I would also see you
in all your finest beauty.