Lying mirror

Alice, Alice

Did you fall thru the mirror?

At what precise  moment

Did you realise it was lying?

The world inside was different

From the world outside

It was physically an impossibility

It couldn't be all there

The reflected wood seemed 

Somehow so different

Deeper somewhat darker

More tortuous heavier clouds 

Rolled in from nowhere

The mirror image was distorted

Don't forget about the Elves' scrying mirror

It is untruthful to the human

Was that mirror magical then?

It is so easy to believe so

I'm afraid the truth is more mundane

From the  three dimensional frame 

We are living in, 

The mirror catches everything in a plane

Depth is missing to the mirror

Now imagine further reduction 

To the line it would be pretty busy.

If we go in the other direction

We may imagine that with the gain

Of another direction the image

Would be more spacious 

Even going to emptiness

So you were right Alice 

The mirror is lying

Not by design simply

By lack of dimension.

Lucette. C. Bailliet 

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