Now+I+am+a+lake.+A+woman+bends+over+me,

"Now I am a lake a woman bends over me": This is a very emotional and true line. This line shows how women feel about mirrors. The mirror is a lake and a woman bends over... The woman is crying; dropping her tears of pain onto the mirror. There are other parts of the poem that express the same action of crying. Another example is when the poem speaks about a young girl drowning... the young girl is drowning in tears. Women do not always see what the wish they could see in their reflection. This line shows the true emotion this woman feels towards the mirror. The mirror shows the truth but it cannot see what is under the skin, it does not show the true beauty of women. It does not show the beautiful things on the women's body. It only magnifies the negative and never the positive. All of this causes the women to bend over raining onto the mirror creating a river.