What is it?

inspired by Ni
http://coinperdu.blogspot.com/2006/05/all-koz-of-ya.html

What is that you cannot see?
What is it that you dare not see?
What is that you bear?
And that you dare not share?

What is it?
That hath been lain upon you
That has painted a veil upon your eyes?

What is it that sums your life?
But fails to count and counter
Even the slightest of your intentions?
What is it that shines from deep within?
But that you never let out?

What is that pain that you claim
you cannot forget
yet want to find the will to forgive?

What is it
that keeps you running day in and day out
that keeps driving you
against that invisible wall
that you have built for yourself
over and again
until you cannot stand up anymore?

What is it
that makes you want to fly
but that grounds your every dream
every time you muster the might to do so?

What is it that makes you fall
every time you want to stand to?

What is it
but the darker side of your own mind
set free against the fury of your own will?
what is it but your own fear of yourself
set ablaze by the pain of your past?
what is it but your own phobia of loneliness
that haunts you day in and day out?

What it is
that will set you free
but the same
that chains you
to your memories of your past?

What is it
that gives you the energy
to shine and radiate against all odds
but your own beauty?

Who is it
that has the will and power
to change the path of your life
but yourself?

Many a times the answers we seek
we may never find
for the questions we ask
aren’t the right ones!

Yet there is so much to yourself
that you are casting away
Because you cannot muster the guts
To open your eyes and see yourself
As who you are
Rather than who you would like to be!