Spare moments are hard to come by
You eclipse my life so completely
I don't feel alone even when I am
I'm so sick of my own thoughts
Losing my centre
Unable to sleep, too wired up
I can't seem to get away from myself
I can't seem to really like myself
I can't seem to separate my sense of self
From you
From my life
From all the people in it
From all these expectations
And all these restrictions
From the people in the past
God knows its self imposed
Living the dream?
Sure doesn't feel like it
Sometimes when I feel happy
I wonder if this is what happy felt like
Because I forget who I used to be
And how happy used to feel back then
They tell me im a different girl
Quieter, wiser, with a sadness in her eyes
They tell me melancholy runs through my veins now
Yet i could never be sad around you.
I forget what I was like
Maybe I never knew myself at all
Just reflections of how people saw me
Is that why the mirror you hold scares me?
Time is not linear to me
It feels like I've filled a lifetime in a year
Like I'll never have enough to do it all
And then the emptier days
When it feels like I'm wasting my life
And all the things I could never process
Unravels in my head with mind numbing speed
I'm driving down the road
Just beginning to make sense of it all
Time races ahead of me
She turns around and laughs at me
Free, resplendent,
God how I wish I could be that free.