SHIELDS

How many murders in a broken mirror

How many superstitions and lacerations

Shards of an unincorporated self

How much blame and shame

How many orphans and riddles, curses and slurs

How many humiliations

How many shadows, loomings and woundings

Fables and counterfeit conspiracies

Cacophonies

How many betrayals and trespasses

Duelings and deflections

Shatterings within shatterings

Scars

How many shadowed segmentatas

How many shields

How many men 

Before the Man emerges.