I woke beneath the surface With daylight miles away The pressure found my fractures And taught my bones to stay I watched the blue turn black I watched the silence move Every breath I couldn't take Became a reason to There are wounds that keep the shape Of everything they survived I came back wrong But I came back breathing Dragged the dark Out of my lungs The ocean left its fingerprints On everything I was I don't need to be unbroken I just need To come up I survived the depth It didn't leave me clean Some nights I feel the current Moving underneath my skin Like part of me is still down there Waiting to be pulled back in But scars are only evidence That something failed to keep me I came back wrong But I came back breathing Dragged the dark Out of my lungs The ocean left its fingerprints On everything I was I don't need to be unbroken I just need To come up Maybe healing isn't forgetting Maybe it never was Maybe every mark I carry Means the water lost YOU HAD ME AT THE BOTTOM YOU HAD ME BY THE THROAT BUT IF I WAS MEANT TO DIE DOWN THERE WHY AM I STILL AFLOAT? I came back scarred But I came back breathing Pulled the night Out of my lungs I was never meant to surface whole I just needed To come up The ocean still remembers So do I.
