I put a scary book in the freezer again,
Something my mom used to do, like she could freeze the fear away.
And isn’t that what most of us do?
We fill our days with nothing, just to make sure the quiet doesn’t stay.
We pile up distractions like bricks in a wall,
Layer after layer, as if enough of them will keep it from falling at all.
But fear isn’t gone—it’s just tucked beneath the ice,
Waiting for the first crack to surface and then...well, you know the price.
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We’re all just freezing the things we can’t fight,
Tucking them away where they’re out of sight.
Laughing off the big stuff, shrugging with ease,
Pretending life’s simple when it’s anything but a breeze.
It’s all just snow-covered fears that we hide,
Frozen, but waiting to slip out when we slide.
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I’ve got a drawer full of "maybes" and a shelf full of "someday,"
But my phone keeps me busy enough to forget yesterday—
Isn’t it funny how every notification feels urgent, even if it’s not?
Like I’d rather dive into pixels than face all the things I forgot I even wanted.
There’s a to-do list somewhere under my Netflix queue,
But it’s hard to pick what matters when everything feels overdue.
And sometimes I wonder if I'll find myself in between these lines I keep leaving unwritten,
But the screen’s a lot easier to hold than the thoughts I’ve been running from.
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We’re all just freezing the things we can’t fight,
Tucking them away where they’re out of sight.
Laughing off the big stuff, shrugging with ease,
Pretending life’s simple when it’s anything but a breeze.
It’s all just snow-covered fears that we hide,
Frozen, but waiting to slip out when we slide.
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And we tell ourselves, if it’s out of sight, it’s out of mind,
But maybe we’re just stacking ice cubes to hold back time.
The thaw comes eventually, it always does,
And maybe what we’re really scared of is who we’ll become when it does.
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[Outro]
So I’ll keep putting books in the freezer for now,
Hoping that fear won’t catch up somehow.
But when the ice starts to break, and the walls start to crack,
I’ll have to face the things I keep pushing back.
