{"sf1_id":890017,"sf2_id":"r17LzYNe","title":"Mirror Fragments","author":"Werefox Inari Sachi","words":219,"posted_at":"2015-07-23T22:38:00.000Z","tags":["Fox","Fursona","Kitsune","Poetry","Transgender"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/890017-mirror-fragments","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/r17LzYNe","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/c7/0d/c70d47f7-8aa8-431c-bc93-1c5da8c9ed28","description":"I don't feel so good today. Sorry...","content":"\"You're beautiful,\" I tell her in the nights--and we dance.\n\n\"Come chase me,\" she says, in the mornings, as the light washes out my face.\n\n\"But I don't know where that path will lead me, while the others watch my stride,\"\n\n\"We cannot lead a life alone.\" I add, holding her hand in the mirror.\n\n\"I will bite their ankles, and shoo them away,\" she promises.\n\n\"I don't want that!\" I protest, trying to put words to her image.\n\n\"Touch me, then.\" She says through the glass.\n\n\"I cannot touch you.\" I retort. \"You are but my hopes.\"\n\n\"Make me solid.\" she begs.\n\n\"I'm trying.\" I complain. \"There's so much to learn, and so few voices want to teach!\"\n\n\"I'm fading.\" she proclaims.\n\n\"So am I.\" I whisper, tracing my fingers down the glass.\n\nHere stands me, this noxious creature.\n\nAt my reflection, another, more noxious--shaped around alien ideals:\n\nWomanhood that wags its tail at me.\n\nThere are few voices that reach out to us both, and we begin to think we're both crazy.\n\nOnly her fierce tenacity--this motherly urge to survive--\n\nAnd my aloof routine, and cryptic hobbies, hold us together\n\nWe are ephemeral genderlings--kyuubi no kitsune\n\nFragments of a psyche, that thirst for love.\n\nMan and woman, glued together by fox.\n\nHelp us with kindness, please, someone.\n\n  \n  \n\n"}