Glimpse in Another Man's Reflection
By: Adam M. Snow
I woke myself in another man's life,
reflection shown was I yet not I.
A glimpse of my lone self strife;
my timely age shows me to die.
But I be not ready in a time such as this,
so it came to me like a demon abyss.
I scream my grief, my aching soul.
I plead my savior, death upon me.
Let me live not this life I'm curse,
write upon my immoral verse.
Let this be a dream, I know it not.
Do I dare keep on living?
I know not this living plot
or of itself a new misgiving.
Leave myself not I in chamber
until I die on morning ember.
Awake myself, my life not this;
freeing the nights, my demon abyss.
I died to wake but life not changed,
although the likes of life estranged.
To live this curse my wakeful day
but when the nightfall, I wander away.