I can feel the tension mounting, sharp across the wire between us,

And I know that dread—it means you’re counting every small abyss.

Your hand is heavy, hovering, poised above the final choice you make.

Just don’t let go, don’t cave in, for my own sake.

I spent twenty years behind the glass of every memory,

You were the only soul who saw the broken girl and set her free.

You saw the smoking ruin and stayed right where you were standing then.

Now the old fear is back again, a trigger waiting in my hand.

I’m starting to count my breathing like a child on the floor,

You know what silence does to me—it screams: “You don’t belong here anymore.”

I’m shaking, but not from you, it’s what I remember in my bones,

The sheer cold of the tiles, the echo of a dial tone, the doors slammed shut when I was small.

Stay with me when the lightning hits,

Don’t vanish into the dark like every ghost who left me did.

If you hold my hand, I swear I’ll learn how to breathe again,

I’m not asking for forever—just stay, just stay.

Don’t disappear when the first thunder starts,

Don’t use the map of my deep fear to tear my walls apart.

I’m not asking for forever—just stay.

All the ghosts are watching me.

Don’t let them win, don’t set them free.

Please don’t set them free.

I keep tracing the cracks in my reflection in the glass, feeling small.

Broken pieces of my childhood, pressed up against the wall.

And my hands are trembling just like they did that time you didn’t call,

Or came home three days later and you wouldn’t speak at all.

You promised this love was a quiet port, not a trial you’d put me through,

But every time you step away, I have to re-prove I won’t leave you.

I’m starting to count my breathing, trying not to freeze or panic,

The love we built together feels like an old mirror now, warm but shattering when you break the spell.

You are the mirror: the warmth, the only true thing I fear, and the past it reflects.

Love isn’t a test. Just let me have this single thing.

Don’t use the wreckage of my story as a weapon in your hand,

Please don’t test my loyalty through silence or a vow, you must understand.

If you hold my hand now, my memory won’t ever look back.

I am not the ghosts who ruined you—just stay with me on this raw track.

Don’t leave me standing in the fire I create,

Don’t shatter this heart, don’t seal my lonely fate.

I’m not asking for perfection—I’m asking for safety, just stay.

All the ghosts are watching me now.

Don’t let them win, don’t know how.

Please don’t set them free.

This storm isn’t you, it’s just the memory of every ghost they left behind.

I am the ocean, and I need your steady coast to find.

I swear I am not the darkness that they planted in your head.

I just need you to be present, be right here instead.

I don’t need the flawless victory, I just need your witness now.

Stay with the storm I create. Don’t run.

Just stay in the room until the lightning passes by,

Don’t vanish into the dark like everyone, don’t say goodbye.

You are holding my hand now, and I’m trying to learn how to breathe.

I’m not asking for forever—just stay.

Stay with the storm until the thunder calms down.

Don’t break this heart, my sanctuary, my promise, my ground.

I’m not asking for forever… just stay