Self-Examination: Reflections in a Mirror
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I stand before a mirror to assess
This aging body’s state, each troubling sign
I’ll need to show my doctor — lumps or moles,
Tingling or numbness, belly fat or sores,
Heart palpitations, rashes, there with things
Beyond all cure, that sag or fall away.
But then I see what mirrored eyes now say,
Those portals of the soul where sheer light sings
Till mind will discipline while love implores
The flesh to give itself to old controls
So virtue every sin might soon confine
Till soul is more and more, the body less
And who I should have been is what I am.
~David Middleton
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