I allowed you in,

I gave you shelter,

your twisted form,

grew unexpected,

a bitter tree,

a wicked lie,

upheaving all I thought was my,

sweet reflections,

shattered glass,

rivers grew,

mountains raised,

life fell out of my bloody grasp,

my mirrored self,

my fancy free,

a bitterness I took from me,

clouds seeded doubt,

within the mind,

a game of chance,

when the illusions came,

hope not,

lost sought,

I repeated,

but…