Why did you hurt me? I never had a choice I couldn't speak yet I couldn't walk yet I couldn't tell you no I was too young to understand I spent my whole life asking why You hurt me I spent my whole life wondering Why did you do this to me? Why did you get away? I never did I grew up with something I didn't have a name for A fear I couldn't explain A body that remembered I learned to hide I learned to run I learned that love could hurt Before I knew what love And all those years I kept asking myself Why did this happen? Why? Why? Why did you hurt me? Why did you choose me? Why did you get away? I never did You got to leave that room You got to keep your life While I grew up carrying Every scar. I had to grow up with it. I had to learn what fear was. I had to learn what safety felt like. But somehow you were always there. Even when I didn't know why. And somehow you were able to walk away while I was left trying to understand. Why did you get away? I never did The system failed me I don't remember your face I don't remember your voice But I know what you left behind And I know it wasn't my choice I was a baby I had no words No way to fight No way to run And somehow I survived Something I couldn't understand Something I would spend my whole life Trying to understand Why? Why did you hurt me? Why did you choose me? Why did you get away? I never did Why do I still have to carry this? Why did something I never chose Become such a big part of who I am? Maybe I'll never know why Maybe there was never an answer But I've spent enough of my life Looking for one Because it wasn't me It wasn't something I did It wasn't something I could stop I was a child. And it was never supposed to happen. Why did you get away? I never did.
