Verse 1 I was already breaking under hands I couldn’t see, Fear in every shadow, every breath inside of me. Being hunted leaves a mark you never really shake, But I reached out for the light, for my own survival’s sake. Verse 2 I trusted in the system, laid my story on the line, Gave them every fragment, every truth I could define. But the record went missing, the proof just disappeared, And the silence from protectors was the loudest thing I heard. Chorus It’s compounded harm, a double scar, One from you, one from who they are. First the threat, then the door slammed shut, By those who swore they’d stand me up. I’m victimized twice, in different ways— By the one who chased, and the ones who turned away. Verse 3 They call it secondary, like it’s somehow not the same, But trauma stacks like dominoes, each one feeds the flame. When justice drops the evidence and shrugs at what was done, It stretches out the terror, says the fight’s not really won. Bridge Trust erodes in real time, hope learns how to stall, Every unanswered question is another prison wall. Uncertainty keeps breathing where safety should have grown, And I carry both the damage and the damage of being alone. Chorus It’s compounded harm, a double scar, One from you, one from who they are. First the threat, then the system’s fall, A second wound I didn’t call. I’m victimized twice, I’m paying the price— Harassed, then erased by institutional neglect. Outro I’m still here, still naming what was wrong, Even when the record’s gone, I know where I belong. You don’t get to lose my truth and call it justified— I survived the harm, and I survived being denied.
