The Mirror and the Ghost

I am the mirror, shattered and broken,
Waiting for someone
To put Humpty together again.
I ask myself--and whoever's up there--
Does anybody,
Just anybody care?
I hear the glass I call my heart shatter inside me,
My blood rushes to my feet
As gravity overcomes me.
I saw the mountaintop, clear in sight,
But then it disappeared,
Like a thief in the night.
I wish I'd seen the avalanche, so mighty and so great,
But blind I was to the large white mass,
'Til it was too late.
I am the mirror, shattered and broken,
Waiting for someone
To put Humpty together again.

I pretend everything is going right,
That I don't see the darkness,
Nor the never-ending night.
I feel the warm touch of her soft gentle hands,
And for a moment,
Everything is alright, but then...
I touch her wrist (to beg her not to leave), but after all she is that ghost, the one who taunts me so,
The bone hung in front of my face,
But the light at the tunnel's end is only just a glow.
I tremble before that ghost of hers,
The ball the cat will never catch,
And the very ground I tread on I know she still must curse.
I cry my heart out, open and bleeding,
But mercilessly,
My heart she keeps deceiving and misleading.
I am the mirror, shattered and broken,
Waiting for someone
To put Humpty together again.

I understand the consequences, the stakes indeed are high,
But the prize is worth the fight,
And the truth is worth the lies--
I'd say a million more, yes it's really worth that much,
I'd rather put my past behind me
So the future's within my clutch.
I dream I will see her halo's glow
But above it all,
I hope my love for her will make itself known.
I try to make her notice me,
But refusal always seems
To get the best of me.
I hope she sees who I am,
Who I want to be,
I hope she sees that man,
The one who's just a mirror, shattered, cold as stone,
Reflecting a million faces,
A million faces that look just like her own.