I'm frightened by the shadows
and hurt by their whispers
somebody once said
the truth hurts
and I've stumbled in the alleys
found my way out of stairwells
Came up from an eternity of drowned tears
But I'm frightened by the shadows
Afraid the whispers I heard might actually be true
Facing myself was the biggest battle I ever won
Slashes to prove my battle wounds
I am capable of victory
but in the pit of me
bones of skeletons thrive through me freely
if no one else knew
I'm scared of lonely and petrified of heartbreak
that love may be true love
completed by self sacrifice and escape
that I may fall prisoner again
steel bars confine
my mind
of painful memories
both past and present
ugly and beautiful
I could only have a slice of my soul left
to share with you
I'm an endangered species that hides out
of the light
away from the sun
and avoids windows and mirrors at all cost
But the warmth of human affection
eradicates my obsession
in dwindling away all that was won
I cant expect you to rescue me
while I rescue me from myself
I sit at my alter with bible and sunflower and chamomile tea to sip silently
with a teaspoon of neurotic and splenda for sweetness to taste
