The Dark Hallway

Will you shine a light on me?
Expose my overextended nails to the nakedness of sight?
Energy wasted on witnessing each advance,
each heart broken to let me cut you?

Will you shoot me?
Blast the birds out of my fence and leave my mystery core with cracks?
Cradle a life with rings of history only to blindsaw?
All memories erased by a split second scare.