ME vs ME

Verse

Not all wars happen outside.

Not every enemy has a face.

Sometimes the battle takes place in the mirror.

And no one kneels — yet everyone bleeds.

Verse

I live alone with myself,

beside myself,

for myself.

At odds with the whole universe,

for the injustice done to me.

Verse

I try to piece together

the fragments of my life,

scattered across the years —

those that have passed

and those yet to come.

I hide my face from the world —

only then can I be alone.

I hide my face

behind a mask of sorrow

from those

who stole my hope.

Pre-chorus

Suffocating

and fighting with myself,

I try to uncover the secrets —

the secrets of the puzzle of my life.

I don’t want to fight anymore,

but I don’t know how to stop.

Every silence

echoes a cry

that no one hears.

Chorus

I stand across from myself —

the same shadow,

different eyes.

One burns with guilt,

the other asks: “Why?”

Verse

I gather the fragments,

though my hands tremble

and wound themselves on every memory.

I don’t know what to piece together first:

heart?

mind?

or the last remaining bit of soul

that hasn’t yet gone out?

Chorus

Me versus me —

maybe I don’t have to win.

Maybe it’s enough

to stop running.

Bridge

I see them both.

Two in one body,

like reflections on a shattered pane of water.

One screams,

the other restrains.

Both drown in each other,

unaware that one can breathe without fighting.

I do not judge.

I do not seek the guilty.

I only see a human being

who forgot

that not everything needs to be pieced together at once.

I sit beside them,

silent,

and wait.

Sometimes that is enough

for someone to hear themselves again.

Outro

And then silence comes —

but it does not mean the end.

It is the space between breaths —

where peace is born.

You do not have to win to keep going.

It is enough

to simply let yourself be.