// S H O W R O O M M I R R O R S //

Yet again, another dweller
drooling for those designer bags.
Yet again, another folk
picking the dirt with his rags.
While I, the omnipotent reflector of truth;
look over everything,
like the angels who descend from the elysian ether.

The two sides of me have perceived it all.
Blankets on the concrete pavements,
Wildflowers blossoming between the cobblestones;
Tires wrecking havoc while they lie asleep,
Vivid lights sparkling an unattainable aura.
Well-off exhibiting their wealth behind me
white faces yearning for a cent in bleak winters before me.

Twilight hits with ringing bells
when keepers arrive with hopes of
getting affluent entwined in their monopoly again.

Yes I've perceived it all with my prowess
while wandering astray in my sonder.
A personnel with avarice discernible on his face,
during the onset of daybreak,
looking for a present for his overseer
or rather an offering to quench his satiety of pinnacle.
An adolescent in a tattered attire
seeking alms from the gentleman with wrapped caskets.
A lady in red peeping through the sides of her sunglasses
scoffing at the versaces behind me
while holding onto her louis vuitton.
A lover hastening his way inside
to convey his lavish ardor to his beloved.
The working class drooling and envying
those forlorn futile wallets with no memoirs inside.
And at the end of the pavement,
under the glinting streetlights
stood a lover of metaphors beholding this bedlam.

Born in factories, where minors toiled
under their (k/bl)ind padrones,
I've led a luxury loaded life.
But I wonder sometimes if I was a mortal,
would I have embraced those cobblestones of this pavement
or hung upon those crummy cash cultures?
Still, I wish I would not desire for epicaricacy
rather I find being a muffled mirror
more compelling than a crooked wise.
I'd prefer gazing reticently at those cerise evenings
and cyanine dusks anytime
than being a callous creature with a love
for sweaty and forlorn bits of paper.

~ Medha
20.08.2021

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