Life Story

Look away You never knew this face I painted you a picture of something real Dressed in ash I hid my naked form Believing all my lies until I couldn’t feel But now I see I was washed with fuel Though everyone is running with a flame Now I know Survival’s all I have I hide away from you to run from blame Faces made of nothing but my self-reproach Fear hiding out inside my lies Everything exists inside the back of here The broken nothing in my mind The cause of all this pain is traced back inside Every waking moment I’m aware The beginning of this search will start with suicide The end of it will start when I don’t care Collapsing into flame I ask to be free of this Wisdom holding life above my head Disease will hold me back from ever seeing bliss Reflections of inner conflict I see instead Look again You’ll never know this face Life is made from the things that we can’t see Look within Perhaps you’ll see a place Somewhere that shows you how to truly be