Fractured Heart

I learned how to smile

when I wanted to cry,

how to look at the world

while I faded inside.

I painted my face

with a beautiful lie,

so nobody noticed

the storm in my eyes.

I told everyone

that I was okay,

while pieces of me

were breaking away.

I became what you needed,

I became what you'd see,

but somewhere along the way

I lost parts of me.

I tried to be perfect,

I tried to be kind,

I carried your burdens

and buried mine.

I held up the walls

while my own started falling,

I answered your voice

while my heart kept calling.

I was loud when you wanted

a reason to blame,

I was quiet when I needed

someone to say my name.

I wore my own mask

until it felt like my skin,

and nobody noticed

the war I was in.

I smiled on the outside,

I broke underneath,

I hid all my scars

behind every breath.

They saw my laughter,

they heard me pretend,

but nobody noticed

the person I’d been.

I was still standing,

but barely alive,

a ghost wearing someone else’s smile.

So if you ask me

why I hide,

it’s because I got tired

of breaking inside.

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Fractured Heart

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