Worth Something More

(ahhhh) Always standing by the gymnasium wall

Waiting for my name that they

rarely call

Pick a partner, everyone looks away

I wonder what I did to make them stay so far away

(so far away)

"You're just so quiet," they say it like a crime

Teachers, classmates, friends who took their time

Is that the only piece of me they see?

Like there's nothing else inside of me

I tried to shrink down so

I could be seen

Starving out the spaces in between

Running till my knees gave in to the floor

Thinking being smaller made me worth something more

I lost the wheel,

I lost every thread

Complicated every single word I said

Nobody tells you how hard it is to ask To take off

the smile and put down the mask I had to reach my

hand into the dark

Nobody speaks about seeking the cure

When you're trembling,

tired, and unsure

I thought I was broken and stranded alone

Carrying all of this sorrow in stone!

I tried to shrink down so I could be seen

Starving out the spaces in between (never again) If you're in the

dark holding onto your breath

You are not alone in the quiet

you

kept

You're not alone

(you're not alone)