You Look Pretty Poem by RIC BASTASA

you look pretty in the mirror
and you keep on telling yourself that you really look pretty
and you turn around with that pink dress
a long red ribbon on your waist
and a flower in your ear
you hold your skirt and take a closer look
on your face
narrowing down to your lips and nose
you need the strictness of silence
and you stare at yourself for a long, long time

it is the mirror distorting your reality
and it takes courage to utter the sentence: i am not real.