The Costume Room

In the costume room

there were many choices —

things to put on you, things to put on me,

faces, masks, and characters,

roles and stories

In the costume room, we know

all these things were put on

and thus could sense that also

we could take them off

Here in the mirror world

it’s not so clear

what I project on you,

what’s really there —

we could be completely different people

in each other’s plays,

not even knowing it

and thus surprised

by all the things we see each other do.

Has it ever seemed that way to you?

©Wendy Mulhern

February 11, 2018