deep in this snake pit of you i find myself staring back at me
all i hate, is a mirror to my soul
reflecting my fears, my thoughts, my death...
consuming my soul as a fire would consume a forrest.
you take me away...
but you are nothing more then me.
nothing more then a shallow image of what i once was.
a shell of sacrifice i laid down years ago...
you are no longer a cool breeze on a summers day
or a glass of water in the desert.
you are now the weight that pins me down.
never knowing when i will see you i close my eye's when i pass refelctions
in fear that you might reappear, like today.
but i see you.
i look in your eye's.
my eye's.
i see the faults.
the flaws.
the fear.
but now i see what i am supposed to see.
my past is no more.
my fears are far behind me.
my flaws and faults are what define me.
so as i lay here in this snake pit i find myself...
not staring back at me...but i find myself within myself...
and i am not afraid......
