Mirrors and Tiles

For it seems the way
Of things;
To never see but always be seen;
In a moment,
Or in a dream.
Philosophy gets you
Like a broken thing.

Never quite knowing, this world
Is guided by animosity.
Ferociously it gives us
Tiles for mirrors,
And mirrors for tiles,
Yet all the while
We are misguided.

Out of stride
Damned and shaken,
We are bid and taken
By our fake eyes,
And ears, what we cannot
Should not, must not.
Do.

Natalie Williams is of African/Irish ethnicity and was born in 1981 in Harare, Zimbabwe and lived a life immersed in creative activity, from music, singing training, creative writing, school newspaper production and editing and acting. She won an Honours Eistedford award for her poem 'The Thicket and The Musgrove' at the age of nine with various other poems/stories printed in local newspapers and magazines. Writing is her passion, finding inspiration by dark fantasy, story telling and poetry, and she continues to develop ideas formed by simplicity and warmed to readiness with imagination. Her inspirations at a young age came from Tolkien, Grimms Fairy Tales, Walter de la Mare and Edgar Allen Poe. This world where bad/good combined seem to form a new reality which provided her with inspirations for some of her favourite pieces of work. Her poetry collection Daydreams in Mermaid Grass can be found on Amazon or ordered direct from my publisher JM Publishing.

Email: Natalie Williams

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