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Face That Wasn't Mine

September 27, 2011
By DreamWriter17 PLATINUM, Marengo, Indiana
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DreamWriter17 PLATINUM, Marengo, Indiana
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learn from your past to live for the future.

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And when I looked into the mirror

I saw a face that wasn't mine

I looked into the future

Saw a world that wasn't time

I saw the face of a woman

Who's years were spent and done

And looked into the past and knew

I wasn't anyone



And when I looked into the water

I saw a face that wasn't there

A swirling mass of expectation

Without promise, love, or care

And when I looked into my life

I saw a future without a past

When I looked into the mirror

I saw the face I'd never have

© Maria B., Boston, MA

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