There’s a fracture in my steady breath, A quiet pact I made with death. It lingers where my calm should be, A parasite disguised as “me.” If I unmask what haunts my sleep, Will it crawl out or sink more deep? Drag me back before I break, I’m slipping for my own heart’s sake. If I’m the storm, if I’m the sea Who’s drowning who inside of me? (Cold builds where the warmth once lay) (Some ghosts choose themselves to stay) I taste the words I never screamed, They stale like promises I dreamed. A hollowhouse behind my eyes, Rooms of truth dressed up in lies. What if the echo that I fight Is stitched into my blood by right? Drag me back before I break, I’m slipping for my own heart’s sake. If I collapse beneath the fear, Would you reach or disappear? There’s a tomb beneath my skin, Marked for who I could have been. If I bury all I knew, Will what’s left resemble “true”? LET IT SNAP LET IT SCREAM! Rip the seams of every dream! Split the spine reveal the proof! If I fall I tear the roof! Drag me back before I break, I’m shattering for my own sake. If every flaw is all you see, Will you hold or hollow me? (I can hear the walls divide) (I’m the ghost I fail to hide)
