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They handed you a suit before you knew your size They drew a map of a city you never wanted to visit, and told you to start walking And you did Because that’s what we do We carry the "well-done," the "not-enough," and the "what-will-they-think" until our spines start to curve under the gravity of ghosts It’s a quiet kind of ending No sirens. No glass Just the sound of a person polishing a mask until the face underneath simply... fades We spend our whole lives trying to be the version of us that lives in someone else's head And the tragedy isn’t that we fail The tragedy is that we succeed, only to realize we’ve been attending a funeral for ourselves the entire time
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Dec 17, 2025
Dec 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM UTC
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They handed you a suit before you knew your size They drew a map of a city you never wanted to visit, and told you to start walking And you did Because that’s what we do We carry the "well-done," the "not-enough," and the "what-will-they-think" until our spines start to curve under the gravity of ghosts It’s a quiet kind of ending No sirens. No glass Just the sound of a person polishing a mask until the face underneath simply... fades We spend our whole lives trying to be the version of us that lives in someone else's head And the tragedy isn’t that we fail The tragedy is that we succeed, only to realize we’ve been attending a funeral for ourselves the entire time
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Dec 17, 2025
Dec 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM UTC
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