unfamiliar introspection,
mirrored; who do I see?
ev'ry day a strange reflection,
staring right back at me.

who I once was; lost. gone. erased,
could it be better this way,
or a greater man now displaced?
only friends could now say.

my friends I have since abandoned,
this is for their own sake,
they wouldn't understand and,
to tell, is a mistake.