Duality By: Al Ray

Why am I this way?

How can this be?

I am pain and I am numbness,

I am happy and I am sad,

True is my creed, but I live a lie,

Peace and torment are my right and left hands,

I am crazy yet I am sane,

I walk in light cloaked by darkness,

My poison is what keeps me alive

Why am I this way?

How can this be?

What I have hidden everyone should see,

I want the best, but do the worst,

I seek something I already have,

I remember the negative and forget the positive,

When the reverse should be what I do,

Why am I this way?

How can this be?

I hit the accelerator when I meant the brake,

I got forward when I should have taken a step back,

I am at my best when I am at my worst,

I ask questions to for answers I already have,

But those answers are questions themselves,

Why am I this way?

How can this be?

I concentrate on false dangers,

While ignoring the real threats,

I am shadow and twilight,

I am only one person,

But I exemplify humanity as a whole,

I am a Paradox that should be,

I am this way because that is who I am.

It is so because that's the way things turned out.