Rising to My Reflection - Spine

Light reflects from the surface and I flounder — I can’t see or hear

And freezing now, weightless in suspension — Maybe now I can hope

Barbs of sunlight… I could drown here

I’m changing inside, becoming someone else — Maybe I could grow to be like you

I could live that way and no longer question — What life has made me

Breaking the surface tension, Drawn back to the world

From the bottom of an ocean, driven from the light

I can feel alive

This feeling eludes me

Signs… definition escapes me

Fear… too cold to hope

Death… life suffocates me

Driven from the light and I’m caught up inside

Myself… it's the only prison I ever made

You don’t get the joke that I’m my only enemy

And I blame everyone else for my inertia

This I understand… tearing away

This I understand.