Canvas "I Need Something Real"

In the mirror, you see your tired face, your body, running too fast, years ahead of you, and when you tell it to wait, don't rush - it doesn't listen.
You say "he doesn't listen"? "He does."
He is not you.
So who's that in the mirror? No, that's definitely not you - that character is fake, it's made up, made up from reflections in other people's eyes, constructed from opinions, made up, painted, combed, decorated, given a name, and written in your passport.

Then you close your eyes.
Let there be no more mirrors in the world – oh, those liars, those painful truth tellers – who asked for your truth? Be gentler, more sensitive, put on Instagram filters, get younger, take your time!
And when those mirrors are gone, you forget what you looked like, and you are just a breath in the warm darkness of closed eyes.
Then you are real. Unconceived, unspoken, recent, not young. Just alive ...