Confront your uncomfortable truths.
It is your duty.
It is our duty, as humans,
for being uncomfortable is what
leads to
growth.

Forcing against the rock of
our own ego,
we must search for the light above,
reach for it,
and burst forth, shattering ourselves
and our perceptions of reality,
but, most importantly,
the perception of ourself.

Many times have I forced myself
to see myself, my thoughts,
for what they were,
and many times more I shall.
I have been crushed by myself,
fueled by self-hatred,
driven in ways that I thought
came from hate,
only now to realize the growth
of oneself by constant destruction
is not an act itself of destruction,
but an act of love.

And many times henceforth
I will be driven by the same feelings
of futility and impotence,
the same self-hatred as before.
I do not fool myself
into thinking that I am free from myself,
but at least
I am free.

And in confronting the truth,
so shall you too be.