They reeled me in with perfect smiles and venom on their tongues Queens of the lunchroom throne, crushing anyone who doesn’t belong I wore their colors, learned the game, laughed when the weak ones cried But the shadows grew teeth and I followed them inside Falling into the red, becoming what I swore I’d never be Forging goodbyes on pretty paper, staging quiet tragedies With the one who kissed like dynamite and dreamed in fire and ash We turned the halls into a graveyard, laughing as they crashed One by one the crowns came off, the popular and the cruel I held the cup, I watched them drop, thought I was rewriting the rules The blood stained more than hands—it soaked into the skin I almost forgot the girl who once refused to let them win Then the mirror cracked and I saw her staring straight at me Not this hollow-eyed accomplice on a one-way track to the end I cut the wires, stepped back from the edge, walked into the light This isn’t who I am—I snap free from the night
