Inside, looking out.
Outside looking in.
That's the way it always is.
Now I'm
Inside looking
Deeper in.

Surrounded by laughter,
Cocooned in my own
Silence.
Blinded by self-made darkness.
I sit, balanced in stillness
Inside my mind
Looking in.

I have looked in
For so long
That now there is no out.
Nothing matters
But the depths of my soul.

I live in a memory
No present,
No future,
Only empty echoes
Of my dead past.
I am
Inside looking in.