There’s a war beneath my skin tonight,
No peace, no pause, no end in sight.
My thoughts collide like crashing seas,
The quiet screams, The begging pleas.

I wear a smile that doesn’t stay,
It slips and fades and melts away.
Each heartbeat’s loud, but never heard
Each hope, a ghost, each truth, a blur.

I trace the scars you cannot see,
Etched deep in places within me.
My chest a cage, my breath a fight,
I dream of calm, but wake to fright.

I question every word I say,
Then curse myself for feeling that way.
I miss the me I used to know
Before the fractures split my core.

And yet still I stand, though the soul is sore,
A soldier lost in love’s long war.

I carry wounds no eyes can see,
Battles fought inside of me.
My armor cracks with every breath,
As I walk a line between life and death.


Yet here I stand, though torn apart
A bleeding shield, a broken heart.