How Do You Know

How do you know when it's time to give up?
How do you know when the last bell has tolled?
How to understand you've sung your last song,
reaped your last harvest, made your last bow?

How to give up when you're not sure if it's over,
how to throw in the towel when there's a round left to fight?
How to let go when you want to hold on?
How to acknowledge that nothing remains?

How do you look at yourself in the mirror
and admit you've been lied to forever?
How to realize you created something pretty in your mind,
and watched reality crush it to powder?

When the choices you made have harmed more than hurt,
and you don't know what paths are left bare,
how to go on with the rest of your life,
how to stop feeling, or pretend you don't care?

My body is battered, my soul torn to shreds.
Every second I slip further away.
I don't know how to make myself stop feeling the pain,
don't know where to go from here.

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But I know the difference between myself and my reflection.
I just can't help but to wonder which of us do you love?