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There in the Mirror
by Steve Patterson → (All Poetry by Steve Patterson)
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addiction
an affliction

a reflection
of the defection
a deflection
of who you be
of who you see

there in the mirror

where you face the fear a'
who you be
of what you see

there in the mirror

those of you
who read me
know me
know what i do
and who i be
and what i see

there in the mirror

will see
what i see
there reflected back at me
just how it be
there be
"I"
just wonderin' "why?"
sometime i just cry
as my Life passes me bye

i've got a 16
year old son
he be a son of a gun
see
he be like me
but he ain't mean
just tall & lean

but he's got the addiction
that affliction
that intention
no one want's to mention

right now
he's in a re-hab unit
somehow
i hope that will do it to it

but, when he
looks in the mirror
what does he see?
hope it's not the fear a'
bein' another me.

but,
what does he see?

there in the mirror

what is his fear a'?

each week i drive
30 miles
just to see his smiles
and i strive as i drive
to survive
all the whiles
to be sober & clean
know what i mean?

before i can see him
i meet with "them"
fathers & mothers
and others
in the other's
families
they just be's
who they be's
they don't mean much to me's

but most of them
don't understand
her or him
they never will
they just pay the bill

woman nor man
they'll never understand
what it takes
to awakes
with your self
top shelf
and what it took
to look

in the mirror

what it took
to say
as you look
ok
today...

i'll be sober & clean
know what i mean?
it makes you lean.

to say
just for today
a minute at a time
i'll rhyme
without reason
i'll pass thru this season

the other families
that be's with me's
i'll hear them say
i'll hear them pray
i'll hear them yell
i'll hear them tell
about all the hell
they've been thru
but what can they do?

what can you do
about you...

there in the mirror

facin' the fear a'
bein' you
what do you do?
a ? so true .

i try to tell
"i know your hell"
but i can't spell
it out for them
their lights are to dim
they don't see her or him

there in the mirror

they just see
who they be
not him nor her nor me

there in the mirror

the addiction
the affliction
the fear a'

bein' there

in the mirror


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 Reviews of "There in the Mirror"
Reviewed by Ed Matlack
Reviewed on July 11, 2004
Bout time you get up from your slumber,
Going to bed after 5am,
No wonder u so late cut lumber,
Good track this poem does take,
Good for your son, good for his dad, hey no fake,
Hope your son does well in re-hab,
You need to be that shining star for him,
No more drinking for you, may help with his addiction,
Keep up the writing or as you said to me, write, write, write,
Seems to me to be only right...

Peace, Ed & Rufuz (w00f)



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