SELF-MADE CASKET

I didn’t notice when it started

(faint breath → silence)

I didn’t feel lost or afraid

I just stopped pushing back

Nothing ever forced my hand

So I stayed where I was at

I didn’t think I was choosing

I thought I was letting things pass

I kept waiting for the moment

That never pushed me back

I made this...

I didn’t fall into the dark

I stayed and shaped it

Every fear became a board

I framed it

I laid down, let it close

Said it felt like home

I wasn’t buried by the end

I built a self-made casket

(low background hum)

Every choice became a nail

I stopped asking how it felt

I learned the weight of standing still

And called it discipline

I told myself this wasn’t death

Just a quieter kind of hell

No fight left in what remained

Just time passing, unafraid

(strained)

I’m still breathing in here

If I knock from the inside now

Would I even hear the sound?

Or did I trade my voice for quiet

And let it shut me down?

I made this...

(whisper fades)

I didn’t fall into the dark

I stayed and shaped it

Called the walls a place to rest

And stayed in

If this is how I disappear

Slow and patient

Then I won’t blame anyone else

I built a self-made casket

I made this CASKET

(silence)