In Amber

I can’t hear you through the mirror Your words are brought to me By a different speaker A copy of your thoughts relayed Streamlined, simplified Caught on tape-delay Did you imagine then You’d be a fly inside the amber? A part of you forever still I can’t see you like they do Lost in a pattern I don’t recognize To them you’re just decoration An affect, a trinket Agency denied Did you imagine then You’d be a fly inside the amber? A part of you forever still I can’t know it completely The feeling of being Slowly atomized Do you come ‘cross yourself Like a beast in the wild With a piece of the whole In the gleam of its eyes? When it speaks in your voice Does it mirror the form Of the void that was left On the day it was born? Did you imagine then You’d be a fly inside the amber A part of you forever still That you would never fade And in the light you’d catch a glimmer A part of you forever still Fly, be free Fly in amber How can we say that we control our fate When what we throw away will grow and replicate?