Ocean Inside

I wake where the sunlight forgets how to reach

Cold blue pressure got a lock on the deep No footprints behind

me, no fire in the sand Just a thousand miles of water

and a heart in my hands They tell stories of dragons that

circle the sky

But nobody asks what it costs when we hide I got scales

like armor, still the loneliness cuts And the whole ocean listens,

but it never speaks up

I’m a dragon below the surface,

breathing all alone

Got a kingdom made of darkness,

but it never feels like home

I could rise above the waves,

but who would call my name?

So I sink a little deeper when the silence does the same

I remember the clouds like a dream I was told Remember warm

mountain air, remember feeling bold Now the currents pull my shadow

through a cathedral of blue Every ship up above is a world

I can’t get to

I carved your name in coral,

watched it fade in the tide Kept a pearl by my pillow

just to feel something bright If a monster can miss you,

if a beast can still pray Then maybe there’s a piece of

me the sea can’t wash away

I’m a dragon below the surface,

breathing all alone

Got a kingdom made of darkness,

but it never feels like home

I could rise above the waves,

but who would call my name?

So I sink a little deeper when the silence does the same

And if you hear that thunder underneath the foam

That’s not the storm,

that’s me asking to come home

I don’t need a crown,

I don’t need to be

brave

Just one living voice to find me in these waves

I’m a dragon below the surface,

fading with the blue

I guarded all this empty world,

wishing it had you

When the moon pulls back the water,

I’ll still whisper your name

Then sink a little deeper when the silence does the same