I don't let people see
I don't let people see inside of me
I don't let them see the anxiety
I don't let them see it killing me

It's killing me from the insides to the outsides
From the outsides to my surroundings
It's killing the people around me
Causing me to lose my grounding

I don't want to go on
I don't want to see
I don't want to see the pain it's causing the people around me

I don't want to stick around
I don't want to see
What it is causing!
This awful anxiety

And if I stay here
It will tear me apart
Torn into pieces and thrown away
Will be all that's left of my croaking heart

And so it seems
That all that's left
Is to fade away
And muffle my screams

But that's not true
That's not what this is
It's horrible I know
But this heart still has some fizz

And it refuses to lose
It will not stop
I will put on my socks
And tie my shoes

I will walk out the door
And not look back
I will keep walking
Until I pass this horrible black

Because that is what
It will take for me
To make it out
Of this anxiety