Scars

I still feel them

When the room goes quiet Little ghosts beneath my skin

That never learned to die

There are fingerprints of yesterday Pressed into the shape of me

Faded lines beneath the surface

Like a language no one sees

I learned to sleep beside the memories Without asking them to leave

Some nights they crawl back through the silence Some nights they barely

breathe I used to think that getting better Meant becoming who I

was

But you can’t unwrite a chapter Just because you turned the page

So I stopped trying to erase it Stopped pretending I was clean

There’s a history beneath my skin But it doesn’t speak for me

These scars (ahhhh) They don’t bleed anymore But they remember (oooh)

Every place I disappeared Every word I couldn’t answer Every year I

spent becoming Someone I could barely recognize These scars (ahhhh) Don’t tell

me who I am They only show me What I carried And

what I left behind I

know the shape of every shadow That used to follow me home

I know how silence changes temperature When you’re afraid to be alone

There were nights I wore a smile Like a lock across my

face While something underneath it Was quietly giving way Now I catch

myself in mirrors And I don’t look away

I can see the person in the damage Without becoming them again

I stopped calling it my weakness Stopped treating it like shame Some

things leave a permanent mark Without possessing your name YOU LEFT YOUR

MARK BUT YOU DON’T OWN IT YOU LEFT THE WOUND BUT YOU

DON’T OWN ME I CARRIED YOUR MEMORY THROUGH EVERY YEAR SCARS (SCARS!)

AND I’M STILL HERE

Maybe they were never meant to vanish Maybe that’s not what healing

means

Maybe I can hold the pieces Without becoming what they did to

me I don’t need to make them beautiful

I don’t need to make them disappear

They’re simply proof That something hurt

And I kept living here

These scars (ahhhh) They don’t bleed anymore But they remember (oooh) Every

place I disappeared Every word I couldn’t answer Every year I spent

becoming Someone I could barely recognize These scars (ahhhh) Don’t tell me

who I am They only show me What I carried And what

I left behind SCARS (SCARS!)

YOU LEFT YOUR MARK I KEPT MY NAME YOU LEFT THE DAMAGE

I WALKED AWAY YOU DON’T GET TO DEFINE ME YOU DON’T GET

TO STAY THE WOUND IS CLOSED SCARS (SCARS!) BUT I

REMEMBER SCARS I still feel them

When the room goes quiet

But they don’t hurt like they used to

They just remind me

I’m alive