The echo and the mirror won’t conform to my ideas
They talk back to me
They stare back at me
So how do I still feel lonely
The echo is a special friend
I scream at a wall and it screams back
I fear there is no end
To the empty voice’s relentless attack
I look into the mirror
I see those empty eyes
The face contorts into a smile
I see but empty skies
There’s no way that voice is mine
It cracks from pain yet yearns to try
It does not want to live
But it does not want to die
That face can not belong to me
The smile is fake and eyes empty
Surely I’m not sad
Surely I’m happy
Of course I know my own face
Of course I know my own voice
But I see in it no trace
Of the me who made that choice
I chose to survive without them
The echo and the mirror
The echo and the mirror
That only showed me the worst
That made me live in fear
That told me I’d never be first
Our reality has no need for mirrors
No echoes in the night
The pain we lived with in the world before
Will deal us forever no fright