Shadow of A Man

Sometimes I don't feel like myself
It's like the man in the mirror
Its echoing someone else
Don't know if I'm diseased
Or simply misplaced
But either way it's a feeling that I can't erase
It's like a starving man just looking for a taste
Of a life left far out of his reach
Grazing his fingertips
It's something he can't grasp
Like the notion of living with everything
But dieing alone
Or the feeling of fearing nothing
Except for the unknown
A quiet oblivion
A silent murder
A tree falling in the forest
With one helpless ear to hear
Or believing in a higher purpose
A god to love and a messiah to fear
Just to have that some one to hear your cries
You pray for a better life
But all you have left to look forward to Are flies
For completing the life lessons and endless tests
There's something waiting at the end
So if this angers my gift then I guess Ive been blessed
This mirror I stare in
This portal to another world
It's a gateway into another dimension
I want to step through
And break the teeth of this broken twin
This flawed shadow of a man
It's not me
This impostor
This fake
I want to break him
To leave shards of him
Spilled acrossed the floor
Begin to pick up the pieces
Of this man
I cut a slit in the flesh on my hand
And the blood starts to trickle
On the broken pieces of this mirror
And I realize
This twin this shadow
This fake this impostor
There's no denying
No lying to clear my head
It's me...

Reviews

[mope]

There's a great beat in this - it would make a good performance piece - either for you or that person in mirror. Or even both of you :)