Porcelain Veil!

Don’t touch me… I might break…

Cracks run deeper than they say…

Smile stitched across my face…

Hold me gently… I decay…

Porcelain skin with a hollow glow

Perfect on the outside, nothing below

Every step that I take might fracture the frame

But I still wear the mask like it’s part of my name

You see beauty—I see the splits

Tiny fractures in every bit

Held together by threads so thin

One wrong breath and I cave within

Say I’m fine… say I’m whole…

But you don’t see beneath control…

Porcelain veil… don’t look too close

There’s something underneath I don’t control

If I shatter… will I reveal…

The thing inside that I can’t conceal…

There’s a voice in the cracks that hums real low

Not mine—but it moves when I don’t say no

Every fracture a door that it slips between

Now it’s wearing my face like a living dream

I feel it shift when I try to sleep

Like it’s learning the way that I breathe too deep

Mimic every word, every move I make

Till I can’t tell which one of us is fake

[You] Don’t break me…

[Them] I’ll remake you…

[You] Stay away…

[Them] I’ll replace you…

Crack by crack… piece by piece…

You’ll be gone… I’ll be complete…

Porcelain veil… it’s wearing thin…

I feel it crawling under my skin…

If I shatter… don’t try to save…

What comes out won’t know my name…

Hands don’t feel like they used to before

Voice sounds wrong when it leaves my core

Every mirror shows something new

And I don’t know which one is true

Am I breaking—or being remade?

Is this death—or a masquerade?

If I’m gone when the pieces fall…

Was I ever myself at all?

Handle me soft… don’t let me fall…

I’m barely here… at all…

You already fell…