Tag: empty

Congeniality

Not warmth, but compliance.
Not harmony, but smooth erasure.

A practiced ease that asks nothing back,
that reflects what is wanted
until the wanting forgets itself.

Courteous anesthesia.
A social smile pressed flat against the glass,
polite enough to disappear inside it

Subsumed by the Mirror

The mirror is not good or bad, it’s simply neutral.

No harm in staying for bit, or being flattered by the reflection. But you don’t stay there. You don’t live in it and let it consume you.

Remember the difference between the puppet and the puppeteer.