No Exit

Can't get out... can't get free Your shadow stretches longer than the room allows Heavy hands rearrange the air inside this house Every word I swallow tastes like rust and compromise Your eyes keep score of every breath I try to hide Doorframes feel smaller when you stand inside the frame Voice like velvet wrapped around a rusted chain I bend until the cracks run deep beneath my skin You call it love while tightening the bonds again No exit, no light, no air to call my own Trapped in the circle that you draw around my bones I push, I pull, I claw against the walls you own Still your grip stays perfect ...never lets me go Mornings start with questions dressed with gentle care "Where you been, who you saw, what you didn't share" I shrink to fit the version living in your head While the real me suffocates inside this bed No exit, no light, no air to call my own Trapped in the circle that you draw around my bones I scream inside the silence that you claim as home Still your grip stays perfect ...never lets me go I see the stranger leaking all my fading light The one who used to fight but now just fades at night This isn't love, it's burial in disguise And I'm still smiling while dying by your side No exit No light Your love's a chain that feels like home Can't get out Can't get free This home is all I know