The Other Side

Sri Djoko 1975 (Indonesia)



I catch myself in the mirror
It looks familiar yet unknown
It feels like I have seen it somewhere
But I've forgotten where

I witness myself changing and transforming
From one into another
It moves so quick that I speed

While I am washing, It approaches me again
It looks like it needs to deliver something
I could not hear it but whisper in my thoughts

I was unconscious, standing and staring at the mirror
It was horrified
I could not move away from it
I was helpless

About this poem

In times of searching fate and the future

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Written on 2001

Submitted by W1lPoems on November 12, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXBB CAX XCX AXXX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 472
Words 91
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 3, 3, 4

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