The Same Reflection

The Same Reflection Think of yourself Pick up the mirror of your soul Look into yourself All the things you know All the rights and wrongs And the choices you have made And the choices you have shunned The truth and the deceit With the love and hate Your freedom and your slavery Cowardice and your bravery Can you see in your eyes That same reflection Can you see in your eyes Looking back at you Can you see in your eyes Looking back at me See them there Humanity Consider yourself Ponder on the reflections of your soul Look into your self All the things you have learned And all the dreams for which you have yearned Such a sainted bestial, intellectual animal Always fearful and forever hopeful Held between emotion and the logical Your spiritual devotion and the material An individual Both hidden and revealed As you confront the world See your reflection In that same reflection Your eyes Looking back at them Can you see in your eyes Looking back at me All of us there Humanity To your sex and desire The need and wanting things Possessor and possessed Possessive constantly In all of this your compassion and your liberty But not how you want to be For the innocence in you And the guilty Awareness to be true And choices made so ignorantly Between the balance in the light between the darkness Between Heaven on Earth And an Earthly Hades A somebody Both shrouded and unveiled As you avoid the world In that same reflection You are looking back at them See in your eyes They are looking back at you Can you see them Can you see in these eyes Looking back at me All of us there Humanity