Double Mockery

By

Amanda Leigh Graves

Looking at her 

                      staring back at me

    That hungry look in her eyes 

I feel that she knows everything about me.

                    all my deepest, darkest most treasured secrets...

She smiles at me

                           an evil grin                      malicious

I take a threatening step toward her

             And she towards me 

She tries my patience

I raise my clenched fist -- daring her to do the same.

                     She does

How DARE she try me like this?

My fury-driven fist slams into her 

                          connecting    

                                                   shattering 

I take pleasure in her pain.

                          As the broken glass clatters to my feet

Glorifying in her agony as my fist drips blood  

                        Her Blood. 

                                             My Mirror.