The fog on the window to my soul has been cleared away and now I'm left staring at nothing but my own hidden self. I see the hidden fears and desires that tuck themselves away in the deepest parts of my mind, buried subconsciously in a place that is never meant to be revealed. Have I truly stared into my own broken soul, naked before me, with no subconscious defenses to keep my suppressed personality traits in hiding where they belong? Or have I simply been consumed by the delusions of an LSD fueled nightmare? The answer most likely lies somewhere in the middle ground between these two statements, as the answer to most questions often does. Whatever the reality may be; I feel naked, violated, and used. The darkest parts of my mind were turned against me and used to torture me internally, For what felt like an eternity. But I have made it through to the other side. The LSD gently fades away as my rationality is restored, and I can still look at myself in the mirror.
Those thoughts that you throw away into the garbage disposal of your unconscious mind in an attempt to hide you from yourself. Those thoughts that go against the societal norms that have been abusively drilled into your mind. 'Those are the thoughts that I stare eye to eye with every day in an attempt to know who I am. Not just the illusion of the person who I think I should be, but truly the purest form of my identity. So I stare at my naked self. He's ashamed and scared. But I throw him some clothes, pull him to his feet, and now we are one again. My demons and I walk hand in hand along a broken road. I know their faces now, they are not strangers to me. Can you say the same?