Broken Reflection

Lyric: I wake up and the ceiling breathes It whispers things it shouldn’t know The shadows stretch across the walls Like they’re waiting for the show There’s a girl inside my mirror But she doesn’t move like me She smiles when I am shaking She screams when I can’t speak I’m so tired of negotiating With ghosts that have my face Every room’s a battlefield Every thought’s a chase They say “just calm down, it’s in your head” Like that’s supposed to help But the war inside my skull Is louder than anyone else There’s static in my veins Thunder in my mind I’m trying to stay standing While the world misaligns Every nerve is on fire Every breath feels wrong I’ve been fighting this silence For way too long The walls are bending sideways The floor is made of glass Every step I try to take Feels like it won’t last There are eyes inside the dark Counting every flaw They crawl beneath my skin With invisible claws I am not your fragile porcelain I am pressure in a cage A scream without a volume A storm without a stage I’m exhausted from pretending That the monsters are just air When they sit beside my heartbeat Like they’ve always lived there There’s static in my veins Lightning in my chest I’m breaking at the edges From never getting rest Every whisper is a siren Every silence screams I don’t know what’s real anymore Or what’s just in between If I explode It won’t be pretty It’ll be years of swallowed fury Tearing through the city I am not a quiet tragedy I am friction, I am flame I am every unasked question You were scared to name And if you look into my eyes Don’t ask me what I see Sometimes the world is melting And sometimes it’s just me