Join us on https://www.twitch.tv/rckcollective where we review your songs every Wednesday and Saturday & on https://cybermetalradio.com/ to play your AI music every week. I can’t sleep. Thoughts surge and collide, drifting through neural corridors where reason goes to die. Every impulse weighs heavy. Every quiet is deafening. I am both the prisoner and the guard, holding my own mind hostage. It bleeds me slowly, invisibly, until I forget what whole ever meant. No tears remain. Only the faint heartbeat of fragility, a body waiting for permission to give up. I tell myself I’m broken. A waste of space. A wretched, unworthy thing... Too heavy for this world, too fragile to escape it. It’s exhausting to pretend at normalcy. To wear the mask of calm while inside everything screams for reprieve. Is anyone out there? Is the question itself madness? The cycle repeats thought after thought, looped, mirrored, re-examined until they dissolve into static. My mind devours its own reflection. Help me... If anyone can hear this, please... help me! I hate who I’ve become. A hollowed version, cored and polished by regret. Worthless. (Nothing) Hopeless. (Nothing) Powerless. Each word another incision, each breath another lie I tell myself to survive the night. And yet somewhere between exhaustion and surrender, there’s movement. A flicker in my chest, an ember that refuses to cease. Maybe it isn’t hope. Maybe it’s defiance. But it’s still mine. ALL MINE!