I am a blank billboard lit up in the night
With only one flickering light glowing bright,
Enough to reject, and enough to forget
Unlike the seasoned sky as the sun sets.

I am all that I see and hear
And I continue to face all the things that I fear,
Rather like a field mouse continuing to scamper
Despite all the odds stacked against her favor.

I am a grain of sand on the beach’s shore
And the scuttling crab on the ocean floor
In the way that I scuttle and crawl and creep
And vanish in the masses when at last we meet.

I am the metal shining on your armor
As you charge into battle for a victory to garner;
I am the mirror into which you look
For reassurance, hope, and the truth they took.

I am the reason the fog light at night
Doesn’t short out and maintains its sight
On the rocky shores below as it heralds and cautions
The lonely sailors from their early ocean coffins.

I am the damsel eternally in distress
But in need of no assistance or a full night’s rest.
I am the princess never shown in the movies,
The reject in no mood for princes to woo me.

Rather, I’m the deviant with a mind too old
For the eyes and ears of one innocent soul;
I’m a flower at bloom and the lady at the loom,
Whose end, it seems, arrives too soon.

I am what I fear and all of my tears
As they coalesce to form one full-length mirror:
I am all you see and hear.
I am all your laughs and tears.