The Reflection Poem by Daya Nandan

I have been around long before the dawn of mankind,
And for some I am an inspiration that motivates their mind,
When most look at me they often reevaluate their life,
Yet for some looking at me makes them decide to end it with a knife,

For most I am merely a tool to show them how they physically appear,
A mental tool to realize their life development and their career,
For some i show them the monster they have slowly become,
And for some I am the symbol of all the obstacles the have overcome,

I show the effects of the passage of time each time you gaze at me,
And walk with you through life until the day you reach your final destiny,
I am one yet I am everyone and everything that ever existed at the same time,
I will never cease to exist even in the far realms of the universes rhythms and rhymes,

I am none other than what humans call reflection,
That enables them to see themselves in a form of projection,
So many laws and uses yet this is the most poetic one,
Self-reflection to realise all that you have gone through and done