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The Person I Was
If I wanted to find the person I was,
I won't ever find him staring in mirrors
All I'll bear to witness is him in my shadow
He glimpses in horror at what I've become
I'm no longer that boy in the picture
He's burdened by this harrowing guilt
As I'm tripping into a bottomless pit
He endured enough of being my conscience
And as he's cutting the strings,
A part of me is finally reaching
Yet before I could reach for the moment,
Any sparkle of hope was burning to embers
At a rate quicker than I cared to remember
If I wanted to find the person I was,
I won't ever find him staring in mirrors
All I'll bear to witness is him in my shadow
He glimpses in horror at what I've become
I only find pleasure, hardly do I cherish it
And when I do, that feeling will never sit
They say the feeling's never forever,
But mine are embedded in flesh
© William Robert Death
#writco #poetrycommunity #poetrysociety
I won't ever find him staring in mirrors
All I'll bear to witness is him in my shadow
He glimpses in horror at what I've become
I'm no longer that boy in the picture
He's burdened by this harrowing guilt
As I'm tripping into a bottomless pit
He endured enough of being my conscience
And as he's cutting the strings,
A part of me is finally reaching
Yet before I could reach for the moment,
Any sparkle of hope was burning to embers
At a rate quicker than I cared to remember
If I wanted to find the person I was,
I won't ever find him staring in mirrors
All I'll bear to witness is him in my shadow
He glimpses in horror at what I've become
I only find pleasure, hardly do I cherish it
And when I do, that feeling will never sit
They say the feeling's never forever,
But mine are embedded in flesh
© William Robert Death
#writco #poetrycommunity #poetrysociety
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