Remember Me

The past comes crashing like a
Freight train wall.
Every name
I wore
Every rise and fall.
I hear old
Voices calling what
I was, dragging
Broken chains through the dust and blood.
I try to outrun every word
I said, every bridge i
Burned, every prayer
I prayed.
The mirror keeps score, it remembers me
Every stolen breath, every mercy i
Didn't see.
I've got nothing
Left but these open hands.
No
Defense to raise, no excuse to stand.
If there's still a place at your