I look around me I find myself in a graveyard There are people walking aimlessly The way they walk The way they talk Makes me wonder if I too am dead Their eyes robbed from light Pulled, plucked by a bird without wings Their lips That once danced with smiles and anticipation pulled down by the weight of their regrets Their legs That could once carry them to everything they could dream Shaking with every step I watch them tiptoe as if they are playing hide-and-seek Hide-and-seek with the things that led them here perhaps I look around me longer And realize that I know their faces I wander, I wander, I wander Until the names of these faces are before me They are etched in stone I find myself in front of a line of tombstones Lined up like broken soldiers waiting for their fate I read the names of every person I know out loud Until I can no longer mutter a word I need to find my way out of here Before I wonder too long And find the tombstone with MY name on it