Smoldering

How do you change
Your perspective on yourself?
Day in and day out,
Trying to feel better
About who you are.
But everyday you look
And see the same.
Nothing has changed,
Except those around you.
So you give up,
Trying not the think.
Still it all remains.
Those feelings inside,
Tearing you down,
Ripping apart what's inside.
So you give up knowing
There's nothing else that can be done.
Yet it all remains,
Smoldering inside.