My Voice in the Dark

War Yariken. My eyes are closed, there's a storm inside. Silent screams are drowning my night. My smile is fake, my heart's in pieces. Friends I trusted stab me when it's weakest. I fight with the daylight, confess to the night. Time keeps running, but the scars stay tight. My dreams are paper, my hopes are burned. All that remains are memories that Hurt. I burned, I burned, but nobody saw. I fell, I rose, but nobody knows. My heart is heavy, my burden deep. My voice the only echo I keep. Sometimes I can't look at my mother's eyes. "I'm fine," I say, but inside I'm tired. If I hug my brother, would I forget the Pain? Or carry tomorrow's broken pieces again? Streetlights are witnesses to my night. My notebook bleeds as the pen cuts my hand. I've tasted betrayal, loneliness raised me. Only rap understood the scream inside me. I burned, I burned, but nobody saw. I fell, I rose, but nobody knows. My heart is heavy, my burden deep. My voice the only echo I keep. Maybe my dreams are cold as gravestones. Maybe my heart forgot how to stay alone. Every line a wound, every beat a cure. Lost in the dark, but rap keeps me pure. Broken glass scattered all along my way. Every step brings the past back in play. Maybe hope hides in tomorrow's light. But I've learned to burn in the depth of The night. No one asks me, "How do you Feel, really?" So I stay quiet, Befriended the walls near me. My tears never fell, they stayed inside. My pen set me free, rap kept me alive. I burned, I burned, but nobody saw. I fell, I rose, but nobody knows. My heart is heavy, my burden deep. My voice the only echo I keep. And though these lines are a child's cry, Lost in dark alleys, fading like time. If one day light shines into my eyes again, Then they'll know who this silent man has been.