This is written in honor of my favorite Sailormoon Villain, Queen Nehelenia...
I gaze into the mirror
That I may study carefully
Every shape and every feature
Of the woman that is me.
Her hair is dark and silky
Her eyes light up the night
Her lips are soft and rosy
Her skin a milky white.
She stares in sovereign silence
And though she does not say,
Her unspoken disapproval
Causes me to turn away.
I cannot bring myself to face her
To lay claim to my disgrace
I swallow hard and shiver
As tears stream down my face.
She does not understand me...
This woman standing there;
She will not recognize my need
To know that someone cares.
So I leave her in the shadows
Feeling something less than whole
The mirror in the darkness
Is that which sees my soul.