My Shadow

My shadows shedding skin

I’m leaving behind one life

And trying to step into a new one

I’m tired of the loneliness of my old life

I’m looking forward to a new one

I’m down digging through myself

Trying to find a way out

Trying to find my way to a new life

I’ve been crawling

Now I’m getting ready to run

Clearing out what could’ve been

And what should have been

Finding out what I can be anew

I’ve been wallowing in my own

Confused and insecure delusions

For a part of me to cross over

But I need to make myself anew

I need new words

New ideas to guide me

I want to feel the changes coming in

My shadows shedding skin

Preparing to be made anew

Change is coming

Now is my time

I want to feel the change consume me

Change is coming

Listen to my muscle memory and

Forge it anew

Contemplate what I’ve been clinging to

I choose to live and grow

Take and give and to move

Learn to love anew and cry

When I need to

I’ll do whatever it takes to step through

Into this new life I’m making

Hoping I can clear the way by stepping through my shadow

Coming out the other side changed

Inspired by Tool’s Forty Six & 2