untitled (c) 2019 Joseph c hinson
Blues before sunrise
With tears in my eyes
The past torturing me
My death beckoning me
My heart consumed with a thief
Masquerading as my new grief
The hunter and the haunted
The forgiven and the daunted
For too long I have been unwell
My soul longing to rebel
My fears needing to be controlled
My story needing to be retold
The truth and the lies
An unflattering new disguise
As I unlive my new life
Saddled with this old strife
Shaken to the bone of me
Mistaken for a clone of me
Staring back at my reflection
I seek to avoid his detection
The imposter shares my face
He knows of my greatest disgrace
The memory of my greatest affair
Has morphed into my latest despair
Trying hard to escape our past
Around the world it was broadcast
My name in headlines
As I stood on the sidelines
Hoping to find a new soul
To fill my heart shaped hole
To replace the ghost of me
To seek my new destiny