This voice inside my head,
When I look into the reflection
There is a drowing feeling
Deep inside my heart

Heavy weights hang from my shoulders
Helping to keep my heart swimming
In the pool of overwhelming
Darkness, Whirling with voices

That second guess the world
The thoughts I have always known
The things that I have become
The little girl I wish to leave behind.

Blinking back at me, with innocence
In her big brown eyes,
I brush away her hair, strangely familiar
She looks at me, tugs at me.

Run away with me.

Whispers in my mind, taunting and jeering
I look down at my hands,
Holding things that have not been there
Objects of hurt and pain
Slicing through my mind, with sharpness
Dropped to the bathroom sink

Turning away from the mirror
Abandoning the past
Looking past the whispers,
Covering my ears
Wiping my tears

I will not run away with you.

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