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Reflections

i'm all alone
but theres a stranger in my home

whenever i confront this person glass flies everywhere
i've learned to walk through the house with a broom

i sit in my room designed as a tomb
could i leave?
should i?

even if i go out to this world i can't see the point
if loving alone is so perfect why doesn't everyone do it?

they say i have to better myself but it seems that there is nothing i can do to improve
i'm bitter chip on my shoulder misconscrewed as being rude 
but i just want to get this stranger out of my house

watches me as a brush my teeth and put my clothes on for work
smirks at my coworker who called me a jerk
and ducks the one i want unkowing of my own worth

i could get rid of every mirror in my house but thats a temporary solution
doctors medications a coward resolution

fist full of pills is a means of escape 
and suicides lame because more pain it creates

i just want him to leave because i'm forgetting who i am
well was, he's already taken a grip on my life
fake smiles and tears every night
i'm losing my friends going nowhere in life

i used to be strong through the pain and the strife
walk up to a girl and say you are my wife
with so much charisma she'd say i was right

now i'm scared to let anyone in
because they would see all the pain that i'm in
how badly i wish i could take off my skin
or reset my world just to try it again

i hate this stranger when i found out the truth
i say it is me 
he said i am you

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