I know you keep it all inside
the pain...

Shattered from the inside out
Pierced within by shards of doubt...

Lie to me
I don't want the truth...

I am only as much as my emptiest part
Where the cold, brittle fragments remain of my...

Looking in the mirror
I can't tell what I see...

Never wanting to sleep
because your reality is better than any dream...

I'm not okay and everything hurts
I have no one at my back...

No one can understand the feeling
The manic energy...

The shadows hold more than secrets
familial bonds straining to be broken...

Darkness creeps into my soul
clutching at parts no longer whole...

Your essence pervades my every thought
It is never enough...

I look for a way out of my self constructed prison
A small crack in the wall of self doubt and self...