Discovery

I'm in a period in my life

Where something is missing

Causing me strife

I look in the mirror

Looking for a familiar reflection

Cannot see it

Only rejection

Of the ways that I lived 

And the values I had 

All feels so ironclad

Shrouded in frenzy

Complete with exhaustion

Inching around only using guarded caution

Step out of oneself

To find the new layer

Underneath all of the bravado

I silently quaver

I must dig deep

To release the new me

The one who is dying to see

All of the new sights

And freedom's true purpose

Step into myself

Benefit from life's surplus