Blank Slate

Woke in the dark no name on my tongue

Eyes like questions nowhere to run

She stood like frost unmoved and cold

Watching the pieces of a story untold

No memory just this scar on my skin

Her gaze says I'm a danger she's letting in

I don't know why I'm here

But the fear feels familiar

She doesn't trust me yet

But she hasn't left

I'm a blank slate drawn in silence

Caught in the storm between truth and violence

She's the shadow with a flicker of grace

In a world that forgot my face

I'm a blank slate a secret set free

Who was I before they rewrote me?

She says they'll come they always do

No ID no name nothing true

But why save me from that alley floor?

A stranger's mercy or something more?

She says maybe she's been there too

Maybe she knows what it means to lose

And for a moment there's something real

A bond we don't dare feel

I'm a blank slate drawn in silence

Caught in the storm between truth and violence

She's the shadow with a flicker of grace

In a world that forgot my face

I'm a blank slate a secret set free

Who was I before they rewrote me?

Scar on my leg heartbeat in my chest

I should be dead but I passed the test

She doesn't promise but she takes the lead

And I follow with desperate need

I'm a blank slate not just broken glass

Fighting for a name in a fractured past

She's the fire walking beside the freeze

And I'm the echo begging for peace

I'm a blank slate a danger a key

To a life I'm not sure was ever me

"Let's move" she said

And I did