No Mirror Required

I love to watch how a poem develops - particularly when its someone elses.  Because when its my own, it's more a matter of mounting frustration with only the dubious hope of a payoff somewhere down the line.  So, basically, I like what you've done here.  Being you've already tolerated my overblown opinions so well, here's one more suggestion - begin paring down your sentences, looking for a simpler way to state each of them without changing anything.  In this way, the writing itself should become sort of invisible, adding an effortless illusion to the poem.  Example: "she will no longer wear / the weight of his reflection any longer" can become "she will wear the weight of his reflection no longer".  What you shoot for here is just to smooth out the grammar and eliminate redundancies in the language. At the same time, you can find new places to break the lines so meanings unfold beyond the break: "she will wear the weight / of his reflection no longer".

These are just suggestions though, to illustrate what I mean.  I focused on that line because I think "she will no longer wear the weight of his reflection" was a wonderful trope.  As for anything else I say, you are welcome to tell me to SHUT UP any time! But still, I've really enjoyed watching this poem progress.  Nice job Rene.