What You Think You Know

You hear my voice but not my tone

You answer questions I never wrote

Every word lands somewhere wrong

Like I’m speaking a language you don’t want

Kitchen light, late-night calls

Advice stacked up like it’s care at all

I’m not asking how to be fixed

I’m just tired and I needed this

You say you know me, but I feel

Like a story you won’t let me tell

You see what you think you know

Not what I’m trying to show

I’m standing right here, I’m barely breathing

But you’re already done believing

I don’t need saving, I don’t need control

I just want someone to see me whole

You see what you think you know

Family photos on the wall

Smiles that don’t say much at all

I learned young how to stay small

So I wouldn’t start another call

You talk like love’s a set of rules

Like I’m failing some old school test

But I’m just trying to make it through

With what I’ve got left

I keep explaining, you keep hearing

Something safer than what I’m feeling

You see what you think you know

Not what I’m trying to show

I’m standing right here, I’m barely breathing

But you’re already done believing

I don’t need saving, I don’t need control

I just want someone to see me whole

You see what you think you know

I don’t need answers tonight

I don’t need “I told you so”

I just need a quiet room

Where I’m not something you outgrow

If you could sit and let me ache

Without trying to rearrange

Maybe I’d finally feel

Like I’m not a mistake

You see what you think you know

Not the weight I carry home

I’m not asking you to agree

Just stay here and don’t fix me

I don’t need saving, I don’t need control

I just want someone to see me whole

You see what you think you know

Porch light flickers, voices low

I let the night say what I can’t show

If no one sees me, I’ll still try

A week till sunrise, I’ll survive