Live With Yourself

How can you live with yourself Spoke the old woman to herself As she stared into her cosmetic mirror Then she sadly cried another tear. She thought again of her own past When she swore forever, but it didn't last Remembering he people she used and also hurt Her soul she lost, now for which she searched. The blames she had placed on all others While never her fault but always another Never saw the crimes that she did As inside of her mind from them she hid. Always someone else's fault but not her own Is that why she's at peace when she's all alone Putting herself always in front of pities line What was hers is hers and her ways a crime. No one has suffered as much as she had suffered And she has endured more than any other At least that's the stories she wants to believe So her eyes are always closed so she doesn't see. She doesn't remember the lies that she spoke Didn't care about the truth that she had choked She didn't recall the sins that she had sinned So she can repeat them over and over once again. We all have our stories to write and speak Truthfulness and honesty is all we should seek Not lies so we can become someone we are not That's not the road of happiness we had sought. The old woman took her eyes away from the mirror She thought how once she was a mentor and peer And her children and students that she had taught Now her type of life they too had sadly sought. We live the life that we are given to live Honestly and honor is the best that we should give We must better our lives as our destiny was dealt Old woman tell me, how can you live with yourself.