My Life On Paper

Familiar Stranger

The same brown eyes

The same dark hair

The same red lips

Are still right there

The same dent near my eye

I got when I was three

I flew off my bike

I never felt so free

That bump near my hairline

I still see it there

My head hit a trailer

It sure gave people a scare

But something's different

Something's wrong

That spark in my eye

it's completely gone

The smile I wore

So completely real

Now so fake

Something I can't feel

This familiar stranger

Staring back at me

With those haunted eyes

So filled with misery

Where is the girl I once knew

The one with the strength

With the courage

To see things through?

I'll get the old me back

It's the least I can do

I'll come back stronger

Because it's long over-due.