Reflection
You stood in your lingerie
Skin pale against black
All contrasts and curves
Your reflection in the mirror
Catching me watching you.
You smiled with your eyes
Dark brown and gentle
Contact without words
Your reflection in the mirror
Sensing me wanting you.
You lowered your gaze
Remembering something
That hardened your jaw
My reflection in the mirror
Knowing I was losing you.
Copyright : the author writing as Romantic Dominant
I wrote this poem at the end of a relationship a few years ago. It was a real moment, and as I prepare this post, I can still see the room, the mirror, and my lover in my mind’s eye. What I don’t know is if I invented having the sense of it being over afterwards.
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A Faded Romantic's Notebook 
deelaytful
April 14, 2012 at 6:51 pm
Great as usual, fadedromantic!
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Romantic Dominant
April 14, 2012 at 10:47 pm
I try
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californiabean
April 15, 2012 at 12:53 am
Lovely. I’ll be back to read more –
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Romantic Dominant
April 15, 2012 at 7:44 am
Thank you
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Hans Kvinde
April 15, 2012 at 11:31 am
Link please 🙂
I know that feeling very well. Like a sudden punch in the stomach – or at other times … like relief.
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Romantic Dominant
April 15, 2012 at 12:30 pm
Ah yes. Both
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Romantic Dominant
April 15, 2012 at 1:19 pm
Link coming
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oliviamar
April 15, 2012 at 12:13 pm
ouch. Yes would love to hear.
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Romantic Dominant
April 15, 2012 at 12:32 pm
Thanks.
Sent
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Sofia
April 17, 2012 at 6:25 am
I hate relationships ending. 😦 Loved the poem though.
oh and “Link Please”
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Romantic Dominant
April 20, 2012 at 11:24 am
Good. Sent.
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Brown Vixxxen
April 22, 2012 at 1:54 pm
mmm…have felt exactly like this before…very good..
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Romantic Dominant
April 22, 2012 at 2:01 pm
Thank you. It is a heart stopping moment
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