Mirror Mirror

All of my life

I have been afraid

Of losing touch and fading away

Not like Herbert Welles or Robert Cormier

More like a stranger with nothing to say

An invisible face

I see a red rose under the sky

That floats like a cloud in the mind of a child

I watch the world and never open my eyes

I wear this mask but it's not a disguise

There's no one to hide

Tell me your mother in heaven won't cry in vain

The way you treat your life like it's just a game

Tumbling down like an endless waterfall

Now you're bragging that you're no disgrace

Thinking you're not a part of the human race

With certainty, you believe you have nothing to fear at all

A keen observer

Balladeer of song

Recites with fervor at the coming of dawn

A wandering searcher

A vagabond

Eyes that light up at night when it's time to move on

Are you here, are you gone?

Mirror, oh mirror, on my wall

I don't see my reflection at all

I broke the glass and it broke my fall

There's blood in the bath and blood in the hall

An emergency call

Tell me your mother in heaven won't cry in vain

The way you treat your life like it's just a game

Tumbling down like an endless waterfall

Now you're bragging that you're no disgrace

Thinking you're not a part of the human race

With certainty, you believe you have nothing to fear at all