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The Stained Mirror

A face looks back, but not my own
A stranger made of skin and bone
The eyes are mine but dull and dead
A mask of someone else instead

The glass distorts but does not lie
The years have drained, the past denies
I touch the face, the cold seeps through
A life I thought I once outgrew

Yet still it waits in silvered pain
A ghost that wears my face again

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