"Erised"

By Daydream Believer

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I've heard many a fantastic tale

Of the sublime power it holds

A reflection of quiet desperation

Where only the truth is told

A land where your eyes are deceived

If only as your heart is quicker

Each detail accurate to perfection

Each picture unique to the beholder

A place left untouched through time

Even as men dared to wonder

How could the lives of so many souls

Be told without so much as a stutter

Countless hours we've wasted before it

Trying with to avail to figure out

Just what sorcery could we be faced with

That so easily erases our doubt

But don't be fooled by such a teller

When the wisdom lies not in it at all

But within yourself, it'll always be there

Whether you feel big or small

The most special things often can't be seen

Yet we know them still to be true

So don't preoccupy yourself with the Mirror of Erised

And look for what's inside of you.

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(A/N: Hmm, kind of strange, huh? I dunno, just what I think about the mirror and what Dumbledore said to Harry about wasting time staring at it. Tell me what u think J )