Broken Mirror

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I have so many sides to my soul

It’s like a broken mirror

With all the shards clinging to each other

Light glints off my mind

Darkness shadows my heart

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Your pain burns holes in the glass

I don't mean to but

I reflect it back to you

How long will this last?

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The mirror falls and smashes on the floor

I can take a lot but I have to wonder

How much more?

I’m sick of this blindness

I miss being able to see

I can’t stand this hopelessness

Like that’s all I can be

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It’s not

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I’ve been more than this

I don’t even know what it is

But I really, really hate it

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I’m not asking a lot

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The mirror falls and smashes on the floor

Fine, I think

I don’t want to have to look at myself

Anymore

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These dark words

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These bleeding thoughts

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Simply aren’t

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Everything I’ve got

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What did I

Even want?

That becoming lost in a poem

Was what I got

My own words wrap around me like a snare

I’m not sure where I’m going

But they’re taking me there