I feel the same
No different than before
There was a time when what you thought of me once mattered
I put weight behind your words
Then something snapped
Deep down inside me

Tectonic shifts aligning

Soft image into focus

Snapped finger break hypnosis

Light through the crack and then

Everything went black



I am not the person you remember from before

The one you patronized and stepped on

The one you hurt

I have pulled the arrows now my skin has become stone

No longer am I prisoner

To your empty fucking words

I carried every single word you said

They stacked up high

They weighed me down

But underneath it all, I didn't notice

I was growing strong somehow



Lean backward through an open window

Nothing left can save me now

I hear the cry of the approaching sirens

Right as I count down

Then something snapped

A lightbulb moment

Like sighting land from the ocean

Pure water in the desert

A thirst that can't be measured

The first breath of a child

Released into the wild



I am not the person you remember from before

The one you patronized and stepped on

The one you hurt

I have pulled the arrows now my skin has become stone

No longer am I prisoner

To your empty fucking words



Your pain is an open secret

It spills with every breath

This game that you played is over now

Gone are the days I was helpless and afraid

Gone are the walls that kept me in



I'm not the person you remember from before



Do you remember?