Shattered Glass

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As I look into those dark and lifeless eyes

All I see is hate

Not for the people around

But hate for who the eyes belong to

They think life is a punishment

And death is a gift

I look deeper into those black eyes

I see a girl trapped behind a glass wall

Begging for help to be set free

She's screaming, pounding against the glass

Crying endlessly

And as I see her crumble to the ground

Given up on hope

Her eyes rimmed red from tears

I see her eyes flicker

From their beautiful green ones

To completely black ones, her tears gone

Just flickering back and forth between the two

And finally, they land on the black ones

Her crumbled figure stands up

And looks me in the eye

She screams, tears resurfacing and falling freely

Her eyes start to crack

Like glass

Pieces falling out

She's back to pounding on the glass

She whispers

"You win."

Her form falls back to the ground

And the remains of her eyes fall out of their sockets

Like shattered glass

She then just lays unmoving in a heap on the ground

Her eye sockets hollow,

Black liquid dripping out like blood

I scream

The glass wall that was separating me and the girl broke

I fall to the floor

I realize that that was no glass

It was a mirror

And that girl

Was me

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