Broken Mirrors

(J Pereira)

Looking in the mirror now the glass is cracked,

It’s all distorted, it’s all abstract,

I’m haunted by reflections, and I’ve been told,

my heart’s a puzzle, and it has no soul,

Midnight thoughts creeping, like shadows on the wall

In the silence, I can hear my inner demons call

Regrets like bullets, they pierce through the air,

And open up old wounds, but I don’t care

The broken mirrors, the broken hearts

The shattered endings and the anxious starts

The ups and downs, the falling apart

but I’m still here, I’ve gone back to the start

Broken reflections, and I see all the pieces,

A life full of lessons, and a pain that never ceases,

The man in the mirror, he’s a stranger to me,

A ghost of what was once, is now a memory.

I paint a smile, but it’s fading with the light,

As Darkness wraps around me, every single night,

I run away, stories sticking to my feet,

They know my secrets, and the lies they keep

The broken mirrors…

Cursed by the choices, the paths I didn’t take,

Living in a dream where I never stay awake,

The scars on my heart, they bleed in the rain,

Every drop a reminder of a self-inflicted pain

Trapped in the fragments, can’t find my way home,

Lost in the shards of the life I’ve outgrown,

Broken mirror, cutting like a knife,

Torn between healing and the scars of life.