Mutilated Reflection

Half past midnight, I must flee

it’s raining in corner, splashing on floor

turn up the volume so I can’t hear my sorrow

rusty nail protrudes from under my feet.

Won’t somebody stay with me tonight?

I lurch and stagger, incomplete and alone

tightrope dangles, untied at one end

shaking loose things that made me proud

doors slam shut on my fragmented parts

Won’t somebody stay with me tonight?

Running backward from broken dreams

inking my flailing dirge of fractured life

pulverized threats and wounded honor

floodgates burst, won’t let joy survive

Won’t somebody stay with me tonight?

Hands of time strike too late for me

I beg to be a part of something

my body coffin, walks with damaged people

mutilated reflection, we are all broken.

Won’t somebody stay with me tonight?