I breathe in, then breathe out
Letting the oxygen fill my lungs
My body responds with a stretch and loud yawn

I hear a strange knock on my door
But since it was faint, I chose to ignore
Because I knew who I would find on the other end
It was my irritable doubts, waving like an old friend

Why do you act like that
So happy, so genuine, so proud
Why aren't you crying like the rest of them
What good would the truth do you now

Aren't you worried about the others
About their thoughts and opinions of you
That smile is nothing but a cheap cover
A cover to hide the doubt living inside of you

I shake my head and deny it completely
Deny all the doubts that plague my soul
But there's no denying the truth
For reality holds my life, reality is my goal

How come everyone always appears as the same
Full of life and joy, not bitterness and rage
I try to rearrange myself and play their little game
But ended up forming a rickety mashed-up bridge
There was only myself left to blame

A life of strife and hardship comes my way
It drives and tears into me and all around it
But it won't stop to look at my pitiful display
It gives and takes without remorse or shame
Knocking me down every step of the way
But there's nowhere to hide, nowhere to escape
It eventually comes for all of us
In the form of the life that we live in today