Unbound

A quiet hum beneath my ribs begins to stir,

A low, growing tremor I can’t ignore.

Something waking where I once felt nothing —

A pulse, a spark, a shift in the floor.

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I move through the moment like a held breath,

Afraid to exhale, afraid to stay still.

Dreams I buried out of fear of failing

Press against the seams I swore were sealed.

Everyone around me seems to know their place,

While I keep tracing circles in the dark.

But something in me flickers, unfamiliar —

A faint rebellion, igniting at the heart.

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There’s a change forming quietly under my skin,

Not rage — a rising I can’t hold in.

No more shrinking just to match someone else’s frame.

This is the moment I whisper:

“I refuse to fade.”

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Lift me higher than the doubts I’ve known,

Pull me from the corners where I hid alone.

I’m stepping into light I used to fear —

I’m finally learning how to keep myself here.

If I fall, I’ll rise again, unshaken, unbound —

I was quiet once… but I won’t stay underground.

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I’ve spent years rehearsing versions of myself

That never fit the shape of who I am.

Soft apologies threaded through my spine,

Living half-awake, afraid to take a stand.

But now the haze begins to loosen at the edges,

Breath returns where silence used to drown.

I feel the shift — subtle, but relentless,

A quiet strength pulling me from the ground.

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Something new is breaking open in my chest,

A truth I buried learning to manifest.

This time I won’t retreat, I won’t look away —

This is the moment I say:

“I choose my own name.”

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Lift me higher than the doubts I’ve known,

Pull me from the corners where I hid alone.

I’m stepping into light I used to fear —

I’m finally learning how to keep myself here.

If I fall, I’ll rise again, unshaken, unbound —

I was quiet once… but I won’t stay underground.

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(Drop to half-time, low guitars, chest-punch drums)

I’m done being smaller than the life I want.

I’m done asking permission to breathe.

I’m done apologizing for the space I take.

Let the false versions fall away —

let them crumble, let them leave.

(massive scream)

I WON’T HOLD MYSELF BACK ANYMORE.

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Lift me higher than the doubts I’ve known,

Pull me from the corners where I hid alone.

I’m stepping into light I used to fear —

And for the first time, I feel myself here.

If I fall, I’ll rise again, unshaken, unbound —

I was quiet once…

but this is my sound.

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The tremor settles into something true —

A beginning I never thought I’d reach.

If becoming myself is the hardest climb,

Then this is my first breath…

finally free.