

Prompt / Lyrics
This is not darkness Darkness holds you close Darkness hears you breathing Even when you don’t This is emptiness An echo with no end You scream into the silence And it never answers back again Standing in the wreckage Of a safety never owned Silence wasn’t saving me— It just delayed the storm This is emptiness Where the voices disappear Where we’re begging just to matter Just to feel like we are here This is emptiness But we’re still reaching through Through the smoke, through the silence I am still reaching you Children learn in whispers How to shrink and how to hide Which part of who they are Feels the safest to survive Sirens sound like warnings Even when they pass you by Love feels like a crime scene Home’s a place you memorize Little hearts go missing Before they lose their teeth It’s easier to say “they’re gone” Than explain what’s underneath This is emptiness Where the system looks away Signed in ink, enforced in silence Every single day This is emptiness But we’re still reaching through Through the fear, through the fire I am still reaching you Grief in every language Fear in every skin Silence taught as survival Just to make it through again Buried pain goes deeper Till the world forgets it’s there But it’s breathing underneath us In the water, in the air They call it order They call it being free But freedom shouldn’t ask you To prove you deserve to breathe This is emptiness Where empathy once lived Where we traded human hearts For the profit margin’s bid This is emptiness But we’re still breaking through Through the ash, through the damage I am still reaching you See me Hear me Don’t erase my name Let me live without Having to explain Not perfection Not a perfect world Just the right to exist For every boy and girl This isn’t just hatred This is neglect in disguise This is a burning house With nowhere left to hide Final Chorus (anthem) This is emptiness But it doesn’t get to win Not while hands are reaching out Not while hope is breaking in This is emptiness But we’re not done yet Through the smoke, through the silence We are reaching— Still reaching Still breathing Not gone yet
Tags
blues, pop
5:36
No
4/6/2026