The Mirror Of Me Poem by Thomas Thompson

The Mirror of Me (August 3,2019 - May 16,2021)

As I stood in front of a mirror
I see my son looking back
Angry eyes, fighter's stance

Enraged
As he screams at me furiously
I AM NOT YOU

And I cannot describe the horror sweeping thorough me
The truth slamming home with a finality
It is I whom he emulated

As tears flow from my eyes
The shame of my example
Always angry tense isolated

Behaviors passed from father to son
Who cannot understand
Why his anger erupts so easily

As his mother looks on helplessly
At the damage I caused
When all she ever sought

Was an end to the vicious cycle
A transition from hostility to harmony
Before time runs out

Tommy