Read the last three lines of Cathy Song's poem "Girl Powdering her Neck," What is she trying to say?

In this poem, there is a girl who is preparing herself for
her day. The last three lines that you are asking about illustrate her looking in the
mirror of a pond, as illustrated in these lines:

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Her face appears in the mirror,
a
reflection in a winter pond,
rising to meet
itself.

She is looking at her
reflection and as she's about to "paint herself" she wipes the reflection with her
sleeve. I get the feeling that she is not happy with her situation in life. I think
perhaps she's a geisha or something similar. The morning at the pond, or when she's
looking at her reflection is the only time that she sees the real person inside of
her.

The eyes
narrow
in a moment of self-scrutiny.
The mouth parts
as if
desiring to disturb
the placid plum face;
break the symmetry of
silence.
But the berry-stained lips,
stenciled into the mask of
beauty,
do not
speak.

The fact that she
can't speak, that the poet calls her face a "symmetry of silence" tells us that she
leads a "secret" life that she doesn't like to admit or talk
about.

In the last three lines, Song
writes:

Two
chrysanthemums
touch in the middle of the lake
and drift
apart.

In this case, the one
flower has to go to do what she has to do, while the other waits in the pond for her to
come back
tomorrow.