Double Sided Mirror - Poem

I turned my hat around on Friday, and spent a portion of the day at the Antique store that I deal out of.  I had a lady bring up what appeared at first glance to be hand mirror with a floral silver plate handle, and I assumed back side also, as the mirror side was facing me.

It was definitely a ladies mirror, and actually mirrored on both sides, with only the handle and frame decorated.  Both mirrors produced the same image, and we kidded about would someone look better on one side than the other.  

As soon as I said that I knew that there was a poem in their for me.  
So for your Sunday Afternoon or Evening reading pleasure here is the poem the mirror inspired me to write:

A double sided hand mirror

Begs for the question to be asked?

If you look good on one side

Will you look the same or better on the reverse?

The evil queen had a special mirror

That would show on its one side, the most

Beautiful woman in all of the land,

Even if it was not held in that persons hand

My dad had a shaving mirror

Of which one side made everything fat

But I know of no woman

Who would look into a mirror like that

Could it be that this mirror only reflects moods

With a happy side and a sad side for which to look

On one side, there is always a smile looking at you

On the other, you’re smile is always upside down

But I think it more likely

That both sides are the same

Happy if you are, sad when you’re not

True to your image, whether you like it or not

By: D. D.

©August 2, 2014

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