I have a way of breaking what I try to hold,
of turning something warm into something cold.
I don’t mean to fail, I don’t mean to fall,
but somehow I’m the damage after all.
My family smiles when I walk through the door,
the kind of smile they’ve practiced before.
They laugh too quick, they say I’m fine,
but I hear the ache between every line.
I feel their pain in the hush they keep,
in the words they swallow, the sleep they lose sleep.
They love me loud, but it costs them more
than they will ever admit out loud anymore.
And then there’s you—
the one I swore I’d protect from this knife.
Yet somehow I cut you without even knowing,
leave wounds behind where love was growing.
I trip on my words, I stall when I should stay,
I choose the wrong silence, the wrong thing to say.
You forgive me fast, you always do,
and every forgiveness just proves it’s true—
That loving me hurts in a quiet way,
that I promise tomorrow and fail today.
I see it flash in your tired eyes,
that split second before the brave disguise.
I don’t wreck things fast, I wear them thin,
I drain the light without meaning to sin.
I turn devotion into endless strain,
and call it love while it looks like pain.
If effort was enough, I’d be whole by now,
if regret fixed damage, I’d know how.
But here I stand with words rehearsed,
You're doing your best, and im proud of you.