On Dignity

This morning I woke up
And walked to the bathroom 
I saw my face in the mirror
Those dead eyes, swimming in doom

God, please, I said
Give me a way out, any way out
Thirty years, all this time
Like a cornered rat, without redoubt 

These choices I have made
Now I drown in a sea of regrets
My friends, their laughter echo loud
I sink beneath Life’s parapet

God help me now to find
A path out from my ragged mind.