Deflector

I'm a colorless banner

Flown at half mast

I'm a vessel for

Last contact

I'm a secondhand piano

Incapable of tune

Providing the score

For "gone too soon"

I'll test the water

I won't dive right in

That's too personal

I'm too delicate

I'll test the water

I won't dive right in

I'm not comfortable

I rarely am

Been a sideline voyeur

A conscientious deflector

Been an underpin for

Something better

Been faulty poet

A personal arsonist

And a last responder

To my own self interest

Cold-shouldered by design

Sleeping in on borrowed time

Lets sing, just one more

I'm a trapeze act missing contact

A long way down to the floor

I'll test the water

I won't dive right in

That's too personal

I'm too delicate

I'll test the water

I won't dive right in

I'm not comfortable

I rarely am

Been a broken record

A conscientious deflector

Been a sounding board for

An absent savior

Been a faulty poet

An ambivalent nihilist

A last responder

To my own self interest

I won't dive right in

I'm too delicate

I won't dive right in

I'm too delicate

I'll test the water

I won't dive right in

I'm not comfortable

I rarely am