Strip It Away

All these years have passed and I still don’t know myself and I wonder if I ever will. The further I continue down this path and the more I learn, the more I realize how little I know about who I am and what I need and what motivates me to get out of bed and face the day, take on what lies ahead and all it may bring. I’ve got to start moving and make something of this, work out what I’m about and break the cycle I’m in. I know it, I’ve got all I want but I don’t have what I need, so tell me, how do I start when I don’t know where to begin. I need something to strip away this accumulated mess. If I just contemplate, a life without constraints, without these layers that continue to build and suffocate. I can find relief, knowing that I’m free, the answer’s there but there’s no simple way out of this. If could take, if I could take, these layers off me maybe then I could get back to who I am and finally look ahead and never look back.