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Coming Undone


The darkness is here, it's crawling in

Whispering in my ear again,

Placing all this fear within

Day and night cycle, never ends

 

Trying to keep head held high

Hiding the fact I'm still broken inside

Lord please forgive me for all the lies

And all the tears still stuck in my eyes

 

I know the past is not my friend

But I find myself looking again

It's getting to close, I'm far from home

Filled with thoughts that aren't my own

Making me feel like I'm alone

 

Conviced that that's the way it should be

Wish everyone could see the real me

While my prayers are bouncing off the ceiling

And it's hard to hide all these feelings

 

My mind feels like a foriegn land

Begging for peace with shaky hands

Why is it so hard to achieve

If it really is meant to be 

Happiness and a life stress free

It's starting to feel like make believe

 

So off the deep and and sinking low

Holding me under and won't let go

Facing changes, feeling faithless

Been here to long and I'm loosing patience

 

I just can't loose sight of the sun

I want to just get up and run

Cause the fight has already begun

And now im coming undone.

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PersonalThemeAbstract

Deeply personal struggle with mental health, depression, broken identity.

SparseMeasureDense

Multiple overlapping ideas: darkness, fear, broken identity, faith crisis, despair.

DarkSentimentBright

Strongly negative throughout: darkness, pain, loneliness, hopelessness dominate.

StillEnergyExplosive

Urgent, restless language with crawling, sinking, drowning metaphors and rapid shifts.

MicroLengthEpic

Approximately 32 lines, spanning multiple stanzas in extended composition.

PlainFigurativeOrnamented

Rich metaphors: darkness crawling, mind as foreign land, sinking, drowning, etc.

LyricVoiceDramatic

Pure lyric first-person introspection; intimate internal emotional monologue throughout.

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