Once so lost and alone, I staggered and I strayed,
I was trapped within myself, and inside myself I stayed,
I was drowning in a world that light just couldn't find,
All alone in a darkness deep inside my mind

The remnants of my tears were my only form of reflection,
My mirror, clearer than any man made device of deception,
I saw myself, within myself and around myself I cried,
And from myself, inside myself is where I ran to hide,

Here I lived and never loved and traveled within myself,
Searching inside myself for myself and seeing someone else,
It was on such a journey I stumbled upon a smoldering flame,
It chilled me and filled me with a coldness, for from it coldness came

Upon it I stepped and jumped back, this was once mine,
My flame, my spark, my heart and my childlike mind,
I struck a match and watched it burn and threw it upon the ground,
And suddenly, in this Iceland within myself, warmth and comfort I found,

I watched the ice melt around myself and inside myself I cried
Such a feeling I had not felt in such a time, such joy, such pride,
For here I held a flame, my very own spark of life, no longer cold and
brittle,
This was my light, my strength and my weakness, my candle rekindled.





 
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