Bane

Shame is a demon passed down by parents; those who’ve not vanquished their own.
We are what we’re taught, for better or worse; we reflect the things we’re shown.

The formative code we’re all saddled with is a thing we can’t rewrite.
We can correct it & we can reject it, but can’t erase the blight.

Find the parcel where you keep your dark & open it up to the sun.
Excavating the coal in your soul is the only way you’ll have won.

Talking cures & self-expression are effective for exorcism.
Filter the rank waters we’ve been soaked in thru a positive prism.

Better is good & best is better; that’s really all that we can do.
Identifying the roots with shame’s rot, thus treating the whole of you.