TEN POUNDS

 

TEN POUNDS

How can we see god

when we cannot even see ourselves

maybe with a mirror

a view from reflection

too often without one

or maybe a selfies’ distortion

after all the camera does add ten pounds

maybe that isn’t a real image

since it’s so malleable

than any truth

very subject to and of

our own abuse

with an added ten pounds

un-mirrored distortions

the image reflections

more malleable than real

we cannot even see ourselves

unless maybe in a pond

with those added ten pounds

or those pools that we can stand over

from a commanding view

a view from refection

only as large as we are

our ripples of light

unlike a camera view

it’s self powered

with a physical depth

a watery reflection that hides

where we are not

that reflection is were we are

a truth un-malleable

shining a light on a camera

hides the refections

needing no distortions

un-mirrored by it’s own pool

out of it’s depth

without distortion as an image

cannot even see ourselves

without the extra ten pounds

A. MENDOZA, 2017