Mirroring the Flux
Ah, the looking-glass. It offers no lies, you see, but a dreadful, shimmering truth that flits just beyond the grasp. The reflection—it is not me, not entirely, but a momentary arrangement of light and shadow, a glimpse of the self in the continuous, maddening current of being. Each faint line etched around the mouth, each deepening crease—they are not chronological scars, but fragments of perception, silent witnesses to skirmishes fought in the dim drawing-rooms of the mind and victories so quiet they barely disturbed the dust. The eyes. They hold the most compelling, unsettling narrative. Once, yes, a certain brightness, … Continue reading Mirroring the Flux