Mirror

I ask her, beg her all the time, won’t she please forgive me

All the others have all gone but she remains to haunt me

I hardly see her frozen eyes staring back to judge me

But looking in the mirror now they strike and pierce and chill me

Sometimes I think it’s a mistake to say there’s claims against me

But still she’ll say the slates not blank and endlessly she’ll wound me

Kindness slows her twisting knife but she’ll reverse the healing

I’ve suffered for the times of wrong I scream at mirrors kneeling

And even though I know she won’t I just can’t help but dreaming

The life we’d live the love we’d give if she would just forgive me