Changing Reflection

Changing Reflection was published in Soul-Lit, a journal of spiritual poetry. Soul-Lit explores spiritual matters in a very human and expansive way.

Changing Reflection

I saw myself as in a mirror
Formed of expectation
And from the body in this silvered glass
I sculpted who I was

Straight and well behaved was I…
My reflection bore witness

Yet beneath the glass and silver fused
Somewhere far within
My difference shone

I saw myself as in a mirror
Its surface cracked by life ‘til
Through the widening gaps my shining difference
Oozed

I watched it stain the luster of the silvered glass
Chagrined
Until I recognized its shine
As the gift I brought Creation

Now I know myself as different
And I see the difference in you
And I know our difference is our Oneness

The silvered mirrors that reflect us
Send new light to All That Is