IN THE MIRROR

Who is this stranger
                     in the mirror
Staring at me
              in a malevolent way?

He says he is I,
And yet he bears no likeness to me,
And about me
                  he knows nothing.

He,
Who does not deserve
                                to have anything
But a small cloud of dust
                                        in the wind,
Dares to claim to be the owner
Of everything I have.

By mimicking me
                 he gains nothing
Beyond himself,
But he limits the days of my life
To his own share of time.

 

Mahmud Kianush

 


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