CHRIS J. MELANSON
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“Years”


Have you ever looked at yourself in the mirror?
And wonder why you are so like you are?
Do you have money?
Do you have friends?
Do you have wishes that your world will come to an end?
Do you drink whisky?
Do you sway over the sink?—
Stand there,
In front of that mirror,
And think, before you call yourself ugly?

Have you ever smashed that mirror
in hopes that everything would change?

Do you wonder what perfect is?
Is it strange,
Wanting to be something you are not?
Do you ever give this any thought?
This question that puzzles me so…
Why not better?
Why not better than I am?

Do you try?
Generally try?
Do you wonder why
When you try,
The only change that happens is a lie?
You think it is all going better,
But it’s not.

Do you feel the way I do?

It’s hard to be whom and what we are!

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-Chris J. Melanson 2001