The Person Within

My ear is kept open to the whispering thoughts within.
When I let their words soak in,
the person inside starts to grin.
"You're fat, you need to be more thin"
"I can see you're starting to get a double chin"
"You have too much acne on your skin"
The hardest war to fight is yourself, and I will win.
I wonder how long I've been fighting and when this all started to begin.
Was this software in our brains built-in?
Where people want death so bad they sprint?
They've told themselves over and over that it's the best solution, convinced.
Wanting the fast life they start to become addicted to the syringe.
You can't hear their silent cries and screams but they're saying "I need a pinch"
"Help me before I spin the wheel and end up in a ditch"
They realized they took the wrong road and want to turn back, called you up and asked for a hitch.
Everyone is at war with this anonymous person inside, some just can't take it anymore and leave off on a bridge.
We can't let that side of us win.
Before we pass away, we should be happy being in our own skin.
And defeating the negative person within