No Longer Fearing, Myself I Now See

This pain,
is coming from the inside.
It's fear and confusion,
I've felt it before.

I feel like,
I have no voice.
Silenced,
forever.....

Sometimes I forget what others are seeing,
I forget what I look like.
I take a look in the mirror,
this face starring back is unrecognized.

It scares me to think,
that I have changed.
I'm not quite sure I've changed,
maybe I've just been hiding all along.

Have I changed?
I do not know....
All I know is that this is me,
Leave it or take it....love me or hate me.

What once was real hopes,
are now my deaden dreams.
I am my own monster,
my own fear.

I am the one,
that runs from this monster.
You can be,
the one that saves me.

Wake me up to let me see,
who I really am.
I need to face my fear,
and see clearly the stranger that is me.

But am I really,
what scares me?
Or am I fearful,
of what I will learn?

This is me,
I will learn to except.
My eyes are wide open,
and I feel....free....