I am no one. (I am everyone)
The sun burns holes in the swollen sky
I am left beaten and worn
Searching for safe ground to lay down my head.
Troubled thoughts show themselves
In trembling hands and reddened eyes
For hours, I look into an old tarnished mirror
I see screaming children,
a young woman bleeding down her thighs,
a blinding explosion,
The truest reflection I have ever seen.