They told me the world was vast

They told me the world was vast and I am small. That my destiny was written on a crumbling wall, They told me to bow to be a gear in their machine, to stay within the lines, and to be heard but never be seen. But I looked in the mirror, and I didn't see a ghost. I saw a universe waiting to reclaim its host. I am not here to ask for permission to shine nor to wait for a seat at a table that is not mine. If I fall today, I will rise taller by the dawn. Every scar is a map of the battles I have won. I am not an accident. I am a delivery flame, the sole author of the power in my name. I went through the dark, paid the price, and left the lesson far behind.

I walked alone for so long trying to find a way out. But every road I follow leads me deeper inside. I stopped fighting the silence; I stopped chasing the light, and somewhere in the shadow I started to feel right – no fear, no noise, just truth without a voice. I found myself in the darkness, and that's where I belong. No mask to protect me; everything I was hiding came back as my friend. I was never lost; I was just not looking right. The darkness didn't take me; it showed me my life. I found myself in the darkness, and I am not afraid, so now I keep my soul safe in the darkness where silence speaks for me – no noise, no illusions, just who I am meant to be. I keep my soul safe in the darkness, safe from the empty light. Some peace is only found when you walk inside the night. I don't need the spotlight; I don't need to be seen. The deepest kind of healing lies where it's unseen, and every step I take now feels steady and true because I found my balance in a place I never knew, a place I was afraid of, a place I thought was damaging, sad, lonely and depressing, but as it turns out, I was wrong, so very wrong.

A crystal glass and bitter wine, everything is doing fine, cocaine white, midnight blue; no one's real, nothing's true, fast cars, faster lies, watching how my spirit dies. I really am running out of borrowed time.