The Mirror of Erised

There stands innocently the Mirror of Erised
Brought home here from Hogwarts
I wonder what I will see when I stand before it
‘erised stra ehru oy tube cafru oyt on wohsi’
Says the inscription on it
It’s no Greek or Latin
Nor are the words cryptic that requires
A clever head to decode them
No, the words are just a reflection
‘I show not your face but your heart’s desire’
(Omg! What a lot of spelling errors
And an apostrophe is missing!)
Anyway, so here it stands, the Mirror of Erised
(Or Desire, l can it, now that I know
It’s only a backward reading)
And I wonder what I will see in it
Will I, like Harry Potter, see pain from the past?
Or like Ron Weasley, a glorious future moment?
I am sure I would see neither
For, the past pain is passed over
And future is not even a tense in grammar
No regrets, no expectations either
But I do have desires for today
A craving for chocolate, you see
And times are tough and chocolate a luxury
But enough of this soliloquy, let me just go
Stand before it and witness the truth
So moved I did before the silverness
When, just then the doorbell chimed
Who could it be in these lockdown times
I wondered, and opened the door
Standing there was my next door neighbour
‘Some chocolates for you,’ said she giving me
A smile and a saucer of rich brown squares
‘I made them at home.’
There I was standing before the Mirror of Desire
On my left hand was a saucer of chocolate
The fingers of my right hand and my lips
Streaked with delightful brown
Who said there was no magic in the world?

Footnotes

Mirror of Erised is a magical mirror that features in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Harry sees himself with his dead parents, while Ron sees himself as school prefect.www.facebook.com