Journey to healing

Verse 1

They took pieces I can’t get back

More than once, behind my back

No one saw, no one came

So I carried the silence and the s egg hame

Years went by like nothing changed

But I bled out in quiet ways

Never said the words out loud

Just found ways to shut it down

Pre-Chorus:

I wore my pain under my sleeves

Marked the days I couldn’t breathe

Chorus:

But I’m learning how to sit in the dark

Without needing to tear myself apart

Still hear echoes, still feel numb

But I don’t run like I used to run

Trying to feel what they stole from me

Trying to hold what’s left carefully

Verse 2:

It happened more than once, more than one face

And I blamed myself, just to feel safe

Cut my skin when I couldn’t scream

Made the hurt into something I could see

No one asked, no one knew

I got good at hiding the truth

But the body remembers what I forget

And some nights I still shake in bed

Bridge:

Some days I slip, some days I stay

But I’ve learned how to put the blade away

It’s not healing, not quite whole

But every breath I take is mine to hold

Final Chorus:

I’m learning how to sit in the dark

Without tearing the rest of me apart

Still breaking, still undone

But I’m not who I was when it first begun

No neat ending, no clean line

But I’m here — and that’s just fine.