Loneliness runs deeper than you’d think
It’s like a quiet root inside of me
A stillness I was born with

At first it was a loneliness I couldn’t escape
But somehow I had already accepted it
It hurt, sure
But I never tried to fill it with someone else
There’s a peace I can only feel
When I’m completely alone

Loneliness feels like strength sometimes
Standing without leaning, without pushing anyone away
No matter how loud the world around me gets
Inside it stays quiet
Even when something touches my heart
It still feels a little too far away
I’m here in the world
And yet sometimes
I feel invisible

Living alongside loneliness
I found pain
But I also found a kind of truth
Why can’t I be like everyone else?
The thought cut deep
Like proof that I was wrong somehow
The things that came easy to others
Felt so heavy for me
I tried to fit in
And ended up tearing myself apart
In a place where normal looked like the only right way
My quietness, my distance were seen as strange
But really it’s all part of the same gradient
Still I kept walking side by side with my loneliness

Some days I can say this is who I am
But other days I get lost again
Drowning in the voices around me
Just when I start to feel safe
Fear whispers
“Are you sure you’re okay like this?”
I think that voice
The one that says connecting means losing yourself
Was born from trying too hard to belong

Times when I held my breath to stay close
Times when I started disappearing inside myself

That’s everything
Only to stay
To stay as I am
Even when no one looks
That’s enough

I’m not asking to be seen anymore
Only to stay
To stay as I am
Even when no one looks
That’s enough
That’s enough
That’s everything