Mimesis (DꖾS)

#Mirroring #SelfLoss #Masking #PeoplePleasing #HumanMask © 2026 Sashariel | DIVIDED HORIZONS (www.divided-horizons.de) DIVIDED HORIZONS (DꖾS) is a solo project by Sashariel. Original songs are written and creatively directed by Sashariel, with AI-assisted instrumentation and vocals used as creative tools. ************ Album: CHROMA, Track #2 Album Link: https://suno.com/playlist/de8a54e3-2f43-4b8b-86dd-c73a26ca46a7 ************ > LYRICS [Intro] I know the shade my soul takes on before another silence lands one measured breath one careful face and something in me starts to thin [Verse 1] Your glass stops halfway to your mouth I hear the weight before the words I trim my sentence while you breathe so nothing in me hits too hard I dull the color in my voice take all the weather from the edge by the time your eyes come back to mine half my truth has already bled [Pre-Chorus] I keep mistaking self-erasure for some deeper kind of grace leave you lighter than I found you come back wearing less of me [Chorus] Mimesis I make a gift of thinning out cut myself down to fit your sorrow not one grand death just slow subtraction beautiful enough to be praised Mimesis you leave with steadier hands than mine I leave with less than what I entered I got so good at carrying souls my own began to feel secondhand [Post-Chorus] My own began to feel secondhand [Verse 2] I know the version people keep the measured warmth, the safer ache the one that never stains the evening never makes the whole thing shake You speak, I hear the hidden bruise and sand my own reply to dust you feel seen and I feel edited down to something easy to trust [Pre-Chorus] Too many borrowed shades in me too many seasons in my marrow I learned to carry foreign climates home until my sky went narrow [Chorus] I make a gift of thinning out cut myself down to fit your sorrow not one grand death just slow subtraction beautiful enough to be praised Mimesis you leave with steadier hands than mine I leave with less than what I entered I got so good at carrying souls my own began to feel secondhand [Bridge] What mercy asks for this undoing what grace survives by going dim I opened every gate within me till nothing sacred still stayed mine I wore their winters in my bloodstream let borrowed stars revise my skies and called that depth because it hurt me less than hearing my own life So tell me when does devotion stop being holy, start to thin When the whole world enters through you and no true center still remains within [Break] I come back kind I come back careful I come back less [Final Chorus] Mimesis I make a gift of thinning out cut myself down to fit your sorrow not one grand death just slow subtraction soft enough to pass for love Mimesis you left relieved and I left altered you left held and I came back colder I gave the best of me away in pieces small enough to be called love [Outro] I know the shade my soul takes on before another silence lands and every kindness leaves a mark that looks too clean to count as harm