"Deflector" by Touché Amoré DEFLECTOR I’m a colorless banner flown at half mast I’m a vessel for last contact I’m a secondhand piano incapable of tune providing the score for “gone too soon” I’ll test the water I won’t dive right in That’s too personal I’m too delicate I’ll test the water I won’t dive right in I’m not comfortable I rarely am Been a sideline voyeur, a conscientious deflector Been an underpin for something better Been faulty poet, a personal arsonist a last responder to my own self interest cold-shouldered by design sleeping in on borrowed time Lets sing, just one more I’m a trapeze act missing contact A long way down to the floor Been a broken record, a conscientious deflector Been a sounding board for an absent savior Been a faulty poet, an ambivalent nihilist A last respo...
