Your Poetry Dot Com - That Person In The Mirror

Array ( [sid] => 165027 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => That Person In The Mirror [time] => 2011-03-02 02:13:44 [hometext] => [bodytext] => I begin another morning
To this there’s no surprise
As I clock the damn snooze button
And slowly start to rise

And I gaze into that mirror
There’s nothing much to see
Just an old familiar face
Staring right back at me

Sometimes he’ll ask me questions
If I’m only half awake
I could assume that I’m just dreaming
But his words aren’t all that fake

How much time have you spent dreaming?
You’ve fallen far beneath the shelf
Will you finally rise above it all?
Or will you soon destroy yourself?

Will you love those all around you?
Even if they let you down?
Will you erase away the hurtful past?
Or sink beneath the ground?

For today is what I gave you
And tomorrow’s far away
You must struggle forth to reach it
In this little game we play

It’s the effort to press forward
For that meaning to survive
As you seek out many answers
As you ask the question, Why?

And you’ll never just quite get there
Yet it’s all we have to give
So we may rest our souls on something
That’s the reason why we live
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That Person In The Mirror
Date: Wednesday, 2nd March 2011 @ 02:13:44 AM AEST
Topic: Sad Poetry

Contributed By: scottstone

I begin another morning
To this there’s no surprise
As I clock the damn snooze button
And slowly start to rise

And I gaze into that mirror
There’s nothing much to see
Just an old familiar face
Staring right back at me

Sometimes he’ll ask me questions
If I’m only half awake
I could assume that I’m just dreaming
But his words aren’t all that fake

How much time have you spent dreaming?
You’ve fallen far beneath the shelf
Will you finally rise above it all?
Or will you soon destroy yourself?

Will you love those all around you?
Even if they let you down?
Will you erase away the hurtful past?
Or sink beneath the ground?

For today is what I gave you
And tomorrow’s far away
You must struggle forth to reach it
In this little game we play

It’s the effort to press forward
For that meaning to survive
As you seek out many answers
As you ask the question, Why?

And you’ll never just quite get there
Yet it’s all we have to give
So we may rest our souls on something
That’s the reason why we live

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