How does one cope?
With the pain inside?
With the shadows.

What’s life like?
When you’re empty inside?
When you want to empty your insides,
To the shadows.

How does it feel when you’re,
Worthless
Useless
When even mirrors look away,
From the shadows

What’s life like?
When your mind shattered
When your will is battered,
When even the glass takes pity,
Unlike the shadows.

Don’t you see?
Them all staring at me?

I still see them,
The shadows.
Yet even as I swing,
The shadows on the wall still grin.