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
And 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 responder to my own self interest