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You think you know me,

This shining smile and burning eyes;

But beneath this skin

I'm nothing but disguise...

And I'm still changing,

My inner fire turned to ice...

No more falling, no heartache,

No vows or sacrifice!

I'm breaking within,

Why don't you feel my pain?

How can I live

If I give in?

Why can't you see

This darkness in me?

Help me to understand

Who is in control!

What is this wraith of madness

Ripping through my heart with poisonous hands?

Destroying

Every truth I have?

It taunts me...

Eludes me...

Defies me...

WAKE UP!

Under this armor

My sunken heart still lives in chains,

Torn from strength and compassion to

Nothing but remains...

And I'm still fading,

This shield consumed my hopes and fears...

Turned my light into memory

Engraved in frozen tears...

I beg you to see

How much it hurts!

This struggle is real,

Why won't you hear my cries?

How can you be

So cold and severe?

You left me here

To stand by myself,

To find my own way, so

Now I fight alone!

Reborn in pain of vengeance,

You will never harm or break me again!

This beast will

Swallow all I am!

The fall is endless...

Frightening...

I WIN!

As days go by

I lose my mind!

Fallen in doubt

Torn and confined!

I try to see,

I try to fight!

What is this thing that I became?

Am I to blame?

Unyielding as stone,

Biting as glass,

That's what you wanted me to be...