Avoiding The Mirror

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For all the lame reasons

I could never be there

Treasured moments

when I stayed away

 

For all those times

excuses were made

And for whose faults

I’m justly blamed

 

I’d change them all

in my twilight

To spend my time

making amends

 

But sadly life gives us

only one chance

To make the right choices

to love and befriend

 

These scars that I carry

the weight I must bear

For my sins of omission

their punishment fair

 

As now I sit lonely

away from the fire

Avoiding all mirrors

— where memory conspires

 

(The New Room: June, 2026)

 

 

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Published by Kurt Philip Behm

I am a lifelong author with 21 books published to date—one best seller. Much of my writing is about the deception of time and its many disguises. My Poetry 'An Anthology Of Perception,' is now available in four volumes. In addition I have a 175 page Poem 'After Midnight,' that was published in 2014. My Historical Fiction series, 'The Sword Of Ichiban' is now up to volume 8 which is being published this Spring ... Vol #1- The Sword Of Ichiban Vol #2- Darkening Sun Vol #3- Revenge Along The War Trail Vol #4- Death From The Sky Vol #5- Jumping Into the Darkness Vol #6- The Fall City Mandate. Vol #7- Approaching Storm Vol #8- Brothers In Blood One autobiographical novel, 'The Death Of The Playground' a Best Seller, published in 2007. One travel novel, 'Searching For Crazy Horse,' published in 2005, recapping my forty years of motorcycle touring in the American Rocky Mountain West. I have written one Children's Book, 'Sammy & Bumpers' that was published in 2016. All of my books are available at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and better Book Stores world wide. Kurt Philip Behm

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