Looking In The Mirror

She looks in the mirror
hoping to see who she is.
For she no longer knows.
Her thoughts were lost
in nightmares of her past.

In the glossy reflective glass
all she sees is a stranger.
Once upon a time she thought
her self to be so beautiful
but now all she sees is a shell.

Looking back at her, from reflection
are the lonely sunken eyes
of a girl abused for far to long.
She only knows the pain inside.
That she feels must come to an end.

Throwing the mirror, it hits the floor with a crash.
Shattering into small fragments of it's former self,
like her heart did the first time she was beaten, blue.
There is no more pain for her now; everything fades,
as she bleeds out on the hard bathroom floor.

She looks one last time into the shattered mirror
as the breath leaves her body and her soul is set free.

* My second poem written for a contest. Please tell me what you think of it*