My dignity

Where did you go?

Why did you leave me one day,

To fend for myself on my own?

Where do you lurk?

Not behind that mirror there.

Not in the blade that lies around here.

One day you simply disappeared.

And when you backed into the shadows

Did you take away my spine as well?

Because I no longer seem able to sit upright

And look people in the eye.

I feel your absence

As strongly as the loss of a limb

And I'm willing to beg

For you to please, please come back

Because I don't have any self respect

To hold me back