Black Liquid Eyeliner

Her clothes reeked of shame  
her eyes leaked of pain  
the mirror once her friend  
now her mortal enemy,  
her dark roots seeped through  
bleached blonde hair  
mascara smeared into  
her crows feet  
a public bathroom  
her boudoir, she sits down  
on the inglorious toilet seat  
a full looking glass was to much  
for her, she despised her reflection  
she pulled out her compact  
that way she could only see
a portion of her face at a time  
when she did her eyeliner went  
between her legs and was now  
swimming in a porcelain abyss  
she wet an old tissue with her  
spit, trying to clean the black  
from the creases time put on her face  
she's trying so hard not to cry  
her throat begins hurt, one drop  
falls she quickly wipes it away  
she just keeps rubbing at the  
black smudges, her tissue begins  
to fall apart so she tosses it to the  
floor only to have it land at her feet  
she kicks it away into a dirty corner  
of her only refuge, she needs more  
tissue but the two stahls are empty  
only an electric hand dryer hangs  
on the wall, she can no longer  
control the deluge, she fumbles  
through her backpack only to  
pull out the only clean shirt she owns  
wiping her face she streaks the shirt  
with make-up, more sobbing then  
she smacks her face to try and stop  
herself from dying on the dirty floor  
of a shitty gas station, she takes another  
long look at herself pulling out her  
wine colored lipstick she pouts her  
lips out, instead of painting them  
she writes " I can no longer look"  
on the mirror that that mocked  
her pain, stepping back only to stumble,  
she dropped her backpack, the only  
things she owned in this life fell out  
on to the nastyness  
her compact broke her mascara rolled  
towards the piss near toilet and her  
soul watched as everything went wrong  
her mind was made up, she didnt  
gather her things she just left, she didn't  
look back, she walked slowly at first  
watching the road she saw headlights  
leaving everything she ever was behind  
she ran until the lights took her into  
the sky. poor lady was taken out by  
a Peterbilt semi.