While the world sleeps, my heart still aches,
I’ve carried more than one soul should take.
I’m tired in ways that sleep can’t reach,
I try to speak, but words won’t keep.
I drown it down as far as I can,
This isn’t my life - not what I planned.
A quiet hell, kept out of sight,
A path I walk through endless nights.
I stayed silent, smiling at my worst,
Knowing someday the walls would burst.
Now they’re caving in, falling through,
No one left who knows what to do.
I pushed away the hands I had,
Afraid of hurting, afraid of being sad.
Now I linger where the light once stayed,
The only ghost I never saved.
