STORM!

Midnight talking to the ceiling fan again

Heart on airplane mode, still feeling everything

I chase the echoes of a name I never said

Every promise feels borrowed, every truth feels bent

I been learning how to breathe inside the ache

Smile in public, privately I break

If love’s a gamble, I was rolling with no stakes

Still I stayed

I tried to stitch my pride with fragile thread

Every road I take just loops back to your shadow instead

And I say you ain't change mine

Then I can't be fine

I hate my longing as you bet

Then you'll be from life's nile

I know where came from

Then my life's thunderstorm

I tore my expressions, I gon'

Then I ain't be alone

I been dancing with the scars you left behind

Calling it healing just to pass the time

If I fall apart, at least I know it’s mine

I won’t drown, I learned to read the signs

I bend, I crack, but I align

I won’t be small to keep you satisfied

Morning light feels like an interrogation

Every mirror asks me for an explanation

I gave you truth, you wanted decoration

So I packed my pain with quiet dedication

I don’t regret the love, I regret the silence

I was loyal to the feeling, not the violence

If growth hurts, then I’m buying the license

No alliance

I outgrew the need to be understood

Now I just need peace, and I need it good

I been dancing with the scars you left behind

Calling it healing just to pass the time

If I fall apart, at least I know it’s mine

I won’t drown, I learned to read the signs

I bend, I crack, but I align

I won’t be small to keep you satisfied

Maybe love was never meant to stay

Maybe it was just a storm to clear the way

I don’t need closure, I need space

I found my name in the wreckage you made

So if you hear my voice in someone else’s song

Know I survived what I thought was wrong

I carry truth where I once was torn

Still standing tall after every storm