Mirror
As I sit
Before me - my reflection,
Awaiting still for my reaction
Or for my head to tilt, at very least
My head is hit
With question after question,
Awaiting still for my reaction
Or for my head to spin, at very best
If I wanted to erase my name
Would you still believe that I exist?
If I decide to wash away my face
Could you place a loving kiss?
Unbeknownst to you, I dream of us
Happiest I could ever be, in this house of glass
Two-faced delight dispelled with rays of morning
A new day again, but everlasting yearning
Forget you not, yet forgive me, please
Don't keep my heart on such short a leash
I've seen your world, it's so grotesque
But I'm all for the horrors that you make
Your gleeful cheers and noisy laughs
They skin me bare and cleave my bones
They mark my crying soul with holes
Replacing mirth of mine with bloody coughs
So for how long
I won't close the distance,
Won't take your hand
And hear your heart's most sacred whispers?
Shapes will shift
Reflection will refract
Yet still I sit
Afraid to act
