Thirteen Shards of Broken Mirrors

My words bleed onto the pages like water from a storm Leaving my mind like the tears of a widow The tension is lessened, but the pain is always present I always knew that my hope was imagined The only cure is to forget There’s no returning what is lost What man can bring his dead friend back to life? What woman can resurrect her dead sister? No one has the power to change the past Even God can’t reverse the clock You can’t undone what you’ve already done You have to grow up Dreams are just dreams Illusion Fantasy You are old enough to see the difference between fairy tale and real life Stop pretending you don’t see the difference You must grow up Get rid of the child inside of you If you have to, erase him Do whatever you must Stop dreaming and wake up It’s time to face reality You have to stop acting like a child Don’t pretend what you feel is really real Pain is real, believe in that Listen to your pain, Pain doesn’t lie Let go...

The punishment for the mistake was cruel, Just as the irony that my mind can be so powerful Yet completely defenseless to my own mindless impulses Island bows to no one Especially not his own reflection I don’t want to imagine how Daisy must feel Her feelings for me were the only interruption In the permafrost apathy that is her own prison Her own living hell Only the dead feel nothing Life is a continuous symphony of emotion Without emotion, there is nothing Now she just feels nothing but pain She can’t let go If she lets go she’ll drown She doesn’t want to drown She still loves me She has forgiven me I cannot celebrate when her love brings nothing but pain There is a glass wall between the two of us, we can see but not speak or touch. How could I do this to her? I was supposed to be her savior but all I did was pull her from the ice to burn in the fire. How long do I have until she returns to the frost and is lost forever? She was my ...