Fractured

mirror-splintered dreams

of bright and happy promises

yesterdays never born

slice through the bitter calloused

flesh of my heart

and I bleed anew

tears of longing

for days that were

that were not

and that could never be.

I was born out of time and place

straining to hear a voice that never speaks

a  broken reflection of another world

and a home I’ll never see.

Bind me up with lies or truth

or bright promises of days to come

but until you still the siren call

of my heart

i can never be made

whole