It Ends Like This (13/4 odd-meter)

[It Ends Like This] All I know is everything is crashing down nothing to show for all of this doubt is growing failing is just my will to resist It ends like this no last stand, no clever twist the floor gives out and I don’t catch myself it ends like this I kept score in every almost, every almost-enough now the numbers won’t add up I thought the fight was proof I was still here the fight was just the thing that disappears It ends like this hands open, nothing left to hold the last light going cold no encore no demand just the quiet after I let go it ends like this Maybe this isn’t dying maybe it’s stopping the lie that I could carry what was never mine to bury It ends like this and that’s the first honest thing I’ve said in years