When I saw myself in the mirror,
the girl who stared
with dark chocolate eyes
and a blank face,
was unrecognizable.
Where did her smile go?
Where did the warmth inside her go?
I asked her that,
and she laughed,
the tone high pitched and crude.
I closed my eyes,
wanting to hide away,
trying desperately to forget her face.
The face of the girl who tried so hard in school
but barely gets by.
The girl who no one notices.
The girl who is falling down into the black hole,
sinking deeper and deeper,
shrouded in darkness,
feeling hopelessness,
crying with silent tears.
My eyes fly open,
no longer comforted behind closed lids.
I see the girl,
a living nightmare,
a haunting reflection of the hollow bones
that I once knew.
I asked her yet again,
where did her smile go?
