The Mirror And The Sea

The sea is the most honest kind of mirror It shows you everything — it pulls you nearer To what you actually are beneath the surface The unfiltered — the essential — and the purpose Of all my careful Into something grateful The mirror and the sea — which do I trust The mirror and the sea — the second must Be truer — salt does not deceive The mirror and the sea — I now believe The mirror and the sea — which do I trust The mirror and the sea — the second must Be truer — salt does not deceive The mirror and the sea — I now believe Glass lies gently Sea — intently True Always true I've stood before the other kind of mirror The glass that makes the flaws and failures clearer Or hides them — which is worse — behind a filter The sea hides nothing — and I love it, tilter Of all my careful Into something grateful The mirror and the sea — which do I trust The mirror and the sea — the second must Be truer — salt does not deceive The mirror and the sea — I now believe You looked at me the way the sea looks — fully Without adjustment — honestly — unruly In your attention — nothing left unread You saw the woman that the mirror fled Of all my careful Into something grateful The mirror and the sea — which do I trust The mirror and the sea — the second must Be truer — salt does not deceive The mirror and the sea — I now believe