I wake up… but I’m still dreaming... This skin tells a lie… yet it’s all I have… I was promised a change, like magic, like light… But the mirror still shows what I left behind... No spell, no fire, no mercy!!! Just a wound that never heals in time… No one sees it— The hollow space behind my ribs… No one feels it— The weight of all the lives I’ll never live… This skin isn’t mine!!! But it’s the only one I’ll ever wear!!! I’m screaming inside!!! Yet I smile so you don’t have to stare!!! This skin isn’t mine!!! But it’s sewn into my fate!!! I can’t rip it off— So I just learn to suffocate... I thought I’d be free, but the silence remains… Now I only exist between the lines of a name... The past still lingers, lurking through cracks... No matter how far I run, it still drags me back… No one sees it— The way they glance, the way they check… No one feels it— The fear of something slipping through the mask… I learned to hide before I could breathe… I learned to hide after they called me free… But I’m done with hiding, Even if it breaks me!!! This skin isn’t mine!!! But it’s the only one I’ll ever wear!!! I’m screaming inside!!! Yet I smile so you don’t have to stare!!! This skin isn’t mine!!! But it’s sewn into my fate!!! I can’t rip it off— So I just learn to suffocate... This skin isn’t mine!!! But at least I own the scars!!!
