Your birthday in the mirror

 There it is the face
The one you see everyday in your mirror
treat it as if that image were really
everything you are

It's there above the bathroom basin
looking as good as you treated it
tell me how does it look this morning
will this face hanging off you get any approval

can you look yourself a few minutes in the eye
or does something rip open at the anxiety
have you been curious about what all this is inside the flesh
or does it bother you like a deep strange phobia

Take another glance at this mirror
Mind tell you to investigate the surface of your skin
evading your own light to find refuge at the grief
of not having a perfect complexion

You know yourself right?
just like anyone pretending to be human out here
resending all the typical agreeable messages
like ants transmitting food

But you don't hide yourself from yourself?
clinging to the hivemind of popular beliefs
conventional existance
the weirdness of you behind those pupils

The other natures and unknown hungers
how the eyes laugh
But go ahead for me, avoid your own glance
check your screen

don't get to know yourself
how closed and mean
because everyday
is your birthday as this human being