We buried you without a name
Under rules I learned to obey
They said it was for your own good
I nodded like a good child should
I wore the shape they handed down
Smoothed the edges, dulled the sound
Left you somewhere in the dirt
Told myself it didn’t hurt
But I still hear you in the quiet
A small voice I can’t deny
I’m sorry for the life you lost
For every line I let them cross
For every dream I laid to rest
To make me someone they liked best
You never got to grow or choose
Never got the chance to lose
I left you there, I walked away
I’m the reason you couldn’t stay
They called it growing, called it right
Turning wrong things into “polite”
Taught me how to disappear
Till there was no trace of you here
I built a self from what remained
Something quiet, something trained
But every step I take now feels
Like I’m walking over what was real
And the ground beneath me shifts and aches
Like it remembers every break
I’m sorry for the life you lost
For every line I let them cross
For every dream I laid to rest
To make me someone they liked best
You never got to grow or choose
Never got the chance to lose
I left you there, I walked away
I’m the reason you couldn’t stay
I see your bones in the dust sometimes
Little fingers, fragile lines
Reaching up through years of shame
Like you’re still calling out my name
I don’t know how to make this right
Or bring you back into the light
But I will kneel, I will stay
I won’t turn my eyes away
I remember who you were
Before I learned to blur
I’m sorry for the life you lost
For all the love it came to cost
But I won’t leave you buried there
I’ll carry you through open air
You may never get to be
Everything you were meant to see
But I will search through all I’ve grown
For every piece that’s still your own
Little bones beneath the ground
I hear you in the smallest sounds
And piece by piece, through who I am
I’ll bring you back the best I can.
