7. Always Were

there's something in you older than your name that watches from behind your eyes it doesn't speak in words you recognise but it never once believed the lies you always were before the noise before the weight before the choice you always were you chose this place you always were you've felt it in the silence between thoughts the part of you that doesn't age the witness that was watching long before you ever learned to turn the page you always were before the noise before the weight before the choice you always were you chose this place you always were the ache you carry is just distance between what you are and what you've worn you didn't lose yourself to living you just forgot you chose to be born you always were before the noise before the weight before the choice you always were you chose this place you always were