My head just above water
I’m beginning to sink
The world around me crumbling
All the things I thought I knew
Come crashing to the floor
Shatters the lies untrue
It’s harder to breathe
The air that I need
Now blanketed in lies
Betrayal so deep
I don’t remember bleeding
The pain so suffocating
Just want to close my eyes
The light seems so nice
A heart blinded by glass
Rose tinted mirrors
Break beneath the pressure
From strength to a mess
My head just above water
With no where to turn
My world left so distorted
The things I held to dear
Are letters kept unfolded
Revealing pain too close to see
A hurt too real to know
Guilt and shame so burnt
No face is left to shine
Inhaling the waters of hate
It’s internalized and burning
Hidden for so long
I don’t remember numbing
As I hold my head up high
Just above the water
I build up my false faces
Then all I that can do
Is the last thing left to do
I breathe...
 
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