It Ends With Me

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