Shattering Mirrors

You took the dusty glass from

The mirrors that surround you

To create the lens you used

To obscure me from across an ocean.

And when your gaze strips me

I question my identity.

Sell me the setting sun, then one by one

Withdraw with your disgrace.

Can you see the faded scars

On my face and arms

From times when I was torn apart

(Sew together broken parts.)

So many things I wished I'd said to you

Refused to surface when face to face

With what we can't erase.

These feelings, these feelings

Left to work out on my own

Now that I'm forced so far from home.

Caught dreaming, I'm reeling now,

Plagued by notion of somehow reliving

The way it used to be.

Now you're staring at the background

Because if your eyes met mine

The image alone would leave you blind

So will you care to see me when I'm gone?

Just hide me in the backdrop to your dream

Use spite to sew together the seams

When you promised the world you'd make

That you'll just as soon take away

Did you imagine me there at the closing parade?