The Reflection ahead

I stared at the vicious creature

right in front of me.

My enemy was a quadruped,

shaking its tail at me menacingly.

As I looked at it, I felt disdain for myself,

and for the creature abhorrence.

I was afraid of a being which

most people treated with indifference.

Time stopped around me as I stood there

inspecting the reflection in the mirror ahead.

Was that a smirk I saw on its face?

Did it sense my panic and dread?

With all these emotions,

I felt as if I was tied,

As if my feet were stuck,

and I stood there petrified.

Then it suddenly stirred,

the subject of my terror,

moving rapidly towards the other edge

the lizard disappeared behind the mirror.

I let out a sigh, but I knew

my relief wouldn’t last forever,

For it won’t be long when my reptilian foe

would venture out again from its shadowy lair.