I was raised in a house full of echoes
Of slammed doors and words cut deep
Where “I love you” came with conditions
And silence was safer than peace
I learned how to read every heartbeat
Tiptoe around every storm
Call it strength but it felt like survival
Just trying to keep myself warm.
But somewhere between the breaking
And all the things I couldn’t say
I saw a different ending
And I chose a different way
It ends with me
I’m done carrying ghosts that you handed to me
I buried the past but it buried too deep
Now I’m digging it out just to breathe
It ends with me
You don’t get to live in the life that I lead
I’m cutting the bloodline of broken belief
Yeah, I’m who you said I’d never be
It ends with me
I remember the weight of your anger
Like it lived in the walls of my chest
Every “you’ll never be better”
Turned into a war in my head
But I look at the kids in my shadow
And I swear on their innocent eyes
They won’t have to unlearn my history
They won’t have to carry my fight
I’m rewriting every memory
Changing what my story means
What was passed down doesn’t own me now
It stops right here with me
It ends with me
I’m done carrying ghosts that you handed to me
I buried the past but it buried too deep
Now I’m digging it out just to breathe
It ends with me
You don’t get to live in the life that I lead
I’m cutting the bloodline of broken belief
Yeah, I’m who you said I’d never be
It ends with me
I forgive you… but I won’t become you
You don’t get my children’s future
You don’t get my name
You don’t get to echo through every generation’s pain
I felt it
I faced it
I broke it in two
What you passed down—
I REFUSE
It ends with me
No more carrying ghosts that you handed to me
I’m tearing out roots they buried too deep
Yeah, I’m finally learning to breathe
It ends with me
You don’t get to live in the life that I lead
I’m building a future they’ll never have to flee
A love that they’ll grow up to believe
IT ENDS WITH MEEEEEE
Nik_Grate
