Shimmer

By: Sapphire (age 13)

I look into the water

To see what's there to see

I see my face

Looking back at me

I see the child I was

So harshly pushed away

I see the laughter lines

Are fading more each day

I see the scars of wounds gone past

Knowing then

When I made them

They would last

I see the angry teenager

Throwing a brick against her mirror

And see the glass imitate water

In its startling shimmer

I see dark eyes

Gone cold with years

And an aging face

Stained with tears

I see cracked lips

And dry black hair

Draping around my face

Like curtains of despair

I see myself

A sailor

of failure

Yet I also see

A glow in my cheeks

Reminding me that I have youth to bequeath

This pitiful soul

So tired with grief

And with a renewed smile

Almost rusty with old

I make the flat, bitter water

Shimmer like gold

"Shimmer" copyright of Sapphire.