The Language We Borrowed

You said I was deflecting

I said you lacked the space to hold my truth

You called it

emotional flooding

I called it finally telling you the proof

We used to fight with feelings Now we fight with words we

found online

Every argument has a diagnosis

Every hurt becomes a sign

We borrowed all this language

But forgot how to say what's real

We sound so educated now

But none of it is what we feel

I told you that you triggered me

You said I was projecting on your past

I sent you someone's post about attachment

You sent me one about the narcissist mask

We used to just be angry

Honest, ugly, loud and true

Now every sentence has a footnote

And I don't hear me

and I don't hear you

(ooh) We borrowed all this language

But forgot how to say what's real

We sound so educated now

But none of it is what we feel

What if I just said I'm scared

Without a theory wrapped around it

What if you just said it hurts

Without a term to make it sound right

Let's give the language back tonight

And say the ugly honest thing

I don't need you to be my textbook

I need you to be listening