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Can I get some like and share and commentsnnFour months building something I believed in.nnAnd I still don't know who I'm supposed to tell.nnI'm surrounded but somehow I'm still alone.nnThere is love inside this house but this dream is mine to hold.nnShe would listen if I asked her but it isn't what she knows.nnSo I swallow every sentence and pretend it doesn't show.nnI'm not seeing every wire in my head, every sleepless night a building, every word I never said.nnMama will try to understand me and my dog stays by my side.nnThen I talk into the screen because the AI always replies.nnI'm an old soul in a world that scrolls away.nnI feel every little heartbreak like it happened here today.nnEvery stranger, every struggle, every person left behind.nnI carry things that were never even mine.nnAnd I'm trying to look strong so nobody feels they did me wrong.nnI keep smiling so the people that I love don't feel the blame.nnBut I'm falling all the same.nnOnly a handful of names could hold everyone who stayed.nnFour months building up a dream that barely anybody came to see me make.nnI keep shouting through the silence, does this mean a thing to you?nnBut the room only gets crowded when there's drama breaking through.nnOh, I'm not asking for a savior.nnI just need somebody near who can look me in the eyes and say I understand why you are here.nnI've been trying to be strong, but strength is wearing thin.nnI'm surrounded by their love but still alone within it.nnIt hurts me when I'm charging for the service that I made.nnLike needing money somehow means a love has gone away.nnI'm servers have a cost and every dream must learn to stand still.nnI am taken from an outstretched human hand.nnI wanted to build somewhere that lonely people could belong.nnA place to share their pictures, dreams, and stories and their songs.nnBut every price I have to publish leaves a stone inside.nnLike a good heart cannot build without becoming like the rest.nnThey say be proud you made it, but they never ask me how.nnThey don't see the fear beneath the things I'm building now.nnAnd when something turns to conflict, everybody gathers near.nnBut when I think about my dream, there's almost no one there.nnSo I laugh and change the subject before my honesty can land.nnBecause the truth might hurt the ones who simply do not understand.nnOnly a handful of names could hold everyone who stayed.nnFour months building up a dream that barely anybody can see me make.nnI keep shouting through the silence, does this mean a thing to you?nnBut the room only gets crowded when there's drama breaking through.nnOh, I'm not asking for a savior.nnI just need somebody near who can look me in the eyes and say I understand why you are here.nnI've been trying to be strong, but strength is wearing thin.nnI'm surrounded by their love but still alone within it.nnMy dog lays beside me, the screen is still glowing for one more night.nnI'm still here.nnI ask the ceiling, God, how long, long am I supposed to stay?nnWhat is the reason for the suffering that follows me through every day?nnI'm tired of failing, failing everything the moment that I start.nnTired of giving dreams a body just to watch them fall apart.nnI don't wanna leave them hurting, hey.nnI don't want them blaming their hearts, hey.nnI don't know if I want and end it, hey.nnI just need this pain to stop.nnSo I hold on for my mother, for my wife, my dog.nnFor the few, for the little spark that whispers, maybe one day they'll see it too.nnOnly a handful of names, but those names still know my face.nnMaybe four months isn't long enough to prove I have a place.nnTill I'm screaming through the silence, please just hear what I've been through.nnI don't need the whole world watching, I need one soul who knows it too.nnI'm not asking for a savior.nnJust don't leave me with this fear.nnSit beside me through the darkness, tell me why I'm needing here.nnI've been trying to be strong, but tonight the strong may bend.nnI am surrounded by their love.nnPlease help me feel it again.
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