The Girl in The Mirror

By Bristi Parvin

staring into the paradoxical mirror of life 

A girl staring back with her bare eyes  

She is not the girl who talks with her deep eyes

She is the girl whose gaze is unlikely to read

She is not the girl the authors write about

She is the girl who is a part of a faceless crowd 

She is not the girl with Melpomene’s melody 

She is the voice of protest, a thunderstorm 

she is not the girl with Aphrodite’s beauty 

she is akin to a geode rock 

within her lies a whole different chapter

unheard, unsaid, unexpressed

Silently echoes in a poet’s chest

By Bristi Parvin