perpetual spectator effect

[taiyangjingling]

the symbol of what it means to be a real person,
but you were already a real person, what was the use?

so incoherently are the thoughts strung together
that they finally begin to resemble something alive

i look in the mirror and i see someone else
but i also see me, because that is who i am

ingrained from birth are the ideas of what is true
the slow, painful realizations are the only way of undoing it

words understood through millennia only to be repackaged, resold
and here i was in the midst of it, wondering what this has to do with me

now it is clear as day, but it cannot be restated
all of the little quips
all of the little facts
all of the little truths
it was by design and so was i