No one leaves here intact
we all
at some time get broken,
battered, cracked, marked,
we try to fix ourselves
though it's a stark reminder
that what you might leave
behind you is a mirror that
others can break,

but we make our roads to
travel on, some to tarry on
before we go on our way,

I live today
if tomorrow comes and I am
still whole
I will play that role, that part
in the cast
until the day is no more.