I'm sitting here staring at an empty space It's not that I don't have things to fill it with In fact, I have an abundance of things Thoughts, memories, hopes But they're all jumbled together Tangled, like poorly stored necklaces The chains wrapped tightly around each other Almost impossible to separate
I could take everything out Place it all out on a table Try to gently detach each piece of myself The problem with that, though Is that more than a few of those baubles and chains Were never meant to see daylight I don't want to reveal the tarnished and rusting metal The cracked glass pendants And the lockets never meant to be opened again Some things are to stay forever Stored away in the darkest corners of my mind I have a box on a dusty shelf there Where they live
I guess I should look for a flashlight So maybe I can try to sort out the better pieces I know there must be some treasures there Maybe I'm just hoping I might have something good left I don't want to face the possibility Of finding nothing but debris Tattered trinkets on a dusty shelf In the back of a damaged mind