In a room lit by moonshine

Sits a burdened girl

Cross-legged on the hardwood floor

Her head’s in her hands

As she cries to the world

 

Leave me alone

Sha repeats and says, more calmly now

The horrors of today can’t repeat again tomorrow

And I don’t see any other way to set me free

Than to keep it all inside of me

 

Her defeated voice, though a whisper

Needs to be heard

The world needs to hear her call

 

Because ignorant people

Can’t help those who need it

 

And aren’t we all ignorant

To the pain we cause others

 

The pain they keep hidden

For self-preservation

Murders

Kills from the inside out

Pulls out our hair

Brands our skin with scars

And holds our hearts hostage

 

So listen

Listen to the people

Listen to our heavy hearts

The things we want to share

But don’t disclose

For self-preservation

Or the hope that if we say nothing

Nothing ever happened

 

Hiding from our world

Hiding from ourselves

Scared that the world

Will criticize

 

Most of the world will

But someone won’t

Because someone can’t stand to see another in pain

 

Be that someone

Please

Be the one who stands up

To tell the world

What they do can’t be done anymore

 

Maybe you’ll find

Another like you

And we’ll band together

To save the ones

Who are consumed from the inside out

 

For self-preservation

We will save each other

No one will be alone

No one

We will save each other