Empty

When fear blocks your heart from seeing love, It makes excuses and causes you to run, Leading to confusion, you put yourself there, The thinker overthought, yet he's so unaware, Tell me who I am, yet your telling on yourself, The mirror reflects back, putting the experience on the shelf, His heart still pounds, his words are alive, But pays too much attention to the fear inside, He refuses to let his pride fall and open his heart, His image is more important, so he lets it all fall apart, Is he really happy with the decision he made?, No, not at all...he drinks his life away, Must we go through the vices of vicious torment and lies, To find his heart drowning, still swimming for his life, Sober fustration can't find the words, For fear his heart won't be valued or heard, The mirror with compassion looks better than the bottle, Yet hes still swimming through the alcohol to get to the bottom, Empty....