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