On Replay

Body so naked and lymph
did this sickness have to come?
The curse of being ignored
that erodes every ounce of strength
and dreams hide in dark clouds
and tomorrow is sucked in a sewer.

But that is all unimportant
compared to the haunting,
a visit from ghosts in the mirror
who rip out your heart
when you’re barely breathing.

Worked so hard to kill them
stop hearing their voices,
only they come back again
every time some mistake
lets their whispers
of I told you so
become a cancer
spreading its poison inside
with weeping the only treatment
for the illness that rots away
all you wanted from life.