I dreamed I stood somewhere high everyone looking up at me all those eyes, still cold inside I called out, no sound came Someone said, why are you so weak like they'd known me all my life I turned and walked down every stair nobody followed me Then I heard your voice not telling me what to do you just stayed beside me until I could hear myself too I don't need you to save me I don't need you to make it disappear just stay a little longer while I find my way back here I've been seeing myself through a thousand borrowed opinions then you looked at me so quietly and I started seeing different I woke, ceiling so pale a water truck rolled past below I touched my own hand it was warm, I was still here I never wanted height or a room full of strangers I just wanted someone close when I opened my eyes You didn't ask me why you didn't make me explain you left a little space beside you and somehow I could breathe again I don't need you to save me I don't need you to make it disappear just stay a little longer while I find my way back here I've been seeing myself through a thousand borrowed opinions then you looked at me so quietly and I started seeing different Maybe I've been carrying words that were never mine letting other people's voices take up too much of my mind I don't know what happens next I don't have to know tonight for once I can sit with myself and not feel like I need to hide I don't need you to save me I just like knowing you're near the world can still get heavy but it doesn't feel the same in here I borrowed your eyes for a while just long enough to see turns out I'm not that bad turns out you stayed with me I borrowed your eyes for a while now I can look at me
