Rising to My Reflection

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.