I dove into reflection

Shattering the surface

So cold and motionless

It beckoned me

Taunted me

Dared me

And I couldn’t turn away

I looked too long

Lost in memories 

Swirling up beneath the innocent façade

I held my breath

My faith

And went wholeheartedly

I slipped the silver skin 

And never caused a ripple

So anxious as it was to swallow me

And there I rocked in arms

Of mothers

Gone ahead of me

I cried a thousand colors

A thousand splintered suns

A thousand fragments

Of my history

Sara Mathews     August 2020

Artwork ~ Jennifer Mujezinovic