u/BiOnicFury

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I hold to the idea

that a person is never just one thing.

Because within me

there are two voices

sharing the same skin.

I am happy,

But sad.

I am good

and evil.

I am smart,

But also a fool,

and so much else.

I myself am a paradox,

an antithesis,

that's difficult to comprehend,

Yet hiding deep meaning.

I wake with certainty,

Yet sleep with doubt.

Build myself up,

just to tear myself down

in those quieter, lonely moments.

There are days

I recognize my reflection,

and days

it feels like a stranger

Has borrowed my face.

I speak with conviction,

yet question every word

after it leaves me.

I am both fire

and what it consumes,

the creator

and the undoing.

I think that is what it means

to exist

not choosing one side,

Just carrying both,

uneasily,

But honestly,

As one.