I sit in rooms that echo, but no one hears

I laugh on cue, then swallow tears

I pass through days like a shadow, thin and slow

Everyone sees me, but they don’t know

I wear my mask so well, they forget it’s fake

I disappear with every smile I make

I’m barely here, but still I stay

Fighting off the dark like it owes me pain

I whisper loud, but no one turns

I light a match, just to watch it burn

If I vanish, would they care?

Or just sit in the same old air

I’m barely here... I’m barely here

I’ve written notes I’ll never send

Words too sharp for them to defend

I need a hand, but I won’t beg

So I bleed in lines they never read

I could scream until I’m hoarse, and still be missed

I could fall, and they’d say I tripped

I’m barely here, but still I stay

Fighting off the dark like it owes me pain

I whisper loud, but no one turns

I light a match, just to watch it burn

If I vanish, would they care?

Or just sit in the same old air

I’m barely here... I’m barely here

Maybe I’m just noise

In a world that’s lost its choice

To feel, to look, to break

To ask if someone’s not okay

I’m barely here, but that’s my role

A ghost with a heartbeat, paying the toll

I reach and reach, but nothing holds

Still I show up, still I fold

If I vanish, would they cry?

Or just keep walking by?

I’m barely here... I’m barely here