You've seemed to lose sight of all I’ am
Trading in my yesterdays for a tomorrow's never after
You can't find the essence longing to break free, to flow out of these veins
You've made me let go of my passion,
All that brought me my joy and laughter

Darkness is caving in and you're allowing it to invade
You continue to force me withstanding the gloom and the melancholy,
Preventing any sunlight to be shed
Watching me sink to the bottom,
Deep beneath the dirt and decay
Too soon you have made my bed
As I lay inside this grave,
I desperately await for a better day

All I was reaching for,
I found you holding me back
All I thought I had,  
You would always discover everything else I lacked
And I thought for sure, I knew what I wanted
But you constantly saw differently,
Leading me to tread down a troubled track

You never let me try to push through
All the obstacles we sometimes must face
You continue to trap me in this current,
In your stubborn careen
To keep me discreetly, neatly tied up in your safety net
While all my talents, ambitions and dreams
Go to a shameful waste
But you have to understand, at times, taking a risk…
Is something we can't always avoid to taste

How can it be,
That you are unable to see,
All that I want to thrive and strive towards?
How is it possible,
That you don't allow me my chance,
To blossom and bloom,
To sing my own tune,
To have my dance?

And how can it be,
That my only obstacle
Is standing right before me?
How is it so,
That all I see and know
Is my very worst enemy?

Why is it,
That the only person I can blame is you?
How can it be...
That you are me, and I’ am you, and we are us,
As you are my own identity and no one else?
How come,
All of the affliction and burden,
My main destruction and obstruction...
Has only ever been...
...Myself…

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