i find myself through you, a different avenue

takes me away from myself and gives me perspective

your share your trials and i am not so different after all

alone i am confused and overwhelmed with the constant bombardment

of half-truths that i tell myself

with others i see the truth and it gives me the courage to take my skeletons from the closet, look at them and their influence and dismiss their authenticity, for they were conceived in fear

it is through you that i find me