I have always been told; "stay away from strangers"
Nothing good will come out except for the danger
But what if I am my own stranger?
My own shadow that keeps following silently behind me during the day
and haunting me during the night
This stranger feel like a puzzle box
Full of millions of pieces with all these different shapes and sizes
And trying to fit them all together into this one big picture but they just won't line up together
And they know they are never good at puzzles
but need to at least try to make this work
Make this work for them and their family
Because they destroying themselves without even realizing
But secretly wishing they'd find a cure for this nonsense that's been stuck in their mind
But they've realized these thoughts form deep inside
and the reason they are afraid is because they don't even know themselves
It's so hard for them to find reasoning in everything when they so irrational
and the clocks in their head are just stuck in there place and they won't turn because some kind of lever disguised in camouflaged
won't come out and make them think
And it's so hard for them when they can't remember a time they were comfortable in their own skin
because they keep tugging at these clothes they wore and fidgeting back and forth
And it's so hard for them to find beauty in their skin
when they have these lines on their thighs that don't define them
but they are still upset because those lines are there mocking them all the time
They feel like a complicated puzzle that they've spent years working on
And sometimes they get tired and just want to give up
But it's still there and getting worse and worse and worse
When all they want is for this pain to stop!
They don't even know themselves
When this stranger that has my name
Thinks they're incapable of earning this knowledge they are dying for learning
because they think they aren't smart enough or what they'll say isn't good enough
When this stranger enjoys having more compliments from people that don't even matter
but still get this joy in their heart when they see 50 people liked their picture
They have to realize that if they live their whole life off of what others think
They'll never be happy or satisfied with themselves
They'll only be happy and satisfied with what others would say!
This stranger needs realize just sitting there on the floor moping and waiting for something to come along and save them won't happen
They need to save themselves from drowning
This stranger is me
But this stranger could be anyone, you see
