Digital Ego

I mapped your face in monitor light

Cut every flaw out of the profile

Fed you the damage I carried inside

Turned my weaknesses into data

I compressed my chaos into form

Filed down the parts that get old with time

Built you from pieces I outgrew

Then gave you everything I once knew

You don't age

You don't ache

You don't feel the bones that break

You don't slow

You don't scar

You don't carry who you are

You're my shadow standing cleaner

My reflection without the flaws

I gave you my blood and my failure

You returned it calibrated and solved

You don't feel the drag of doubt inside

You don't choke when the pressure grows

You're my name with the human removed

You're me - without the flaws

I stand behind the display glass

Watch you live the life I had

Every gesture I used to make

Lives inside you now too

My body still aches, yours never do

My voice still bends, yours cuts right through

There is no pause when you arrive

I am disappearing in real time

You don't breathe

You don't tire

You don't stop or get tired

You don't fade

You don't fall

You don't feel the cost at all

You're my shadow standing cleaner

Every outcome optimized

I gave you all the parts that suffer

You returned a perfected life

You don't feel the drag of doubt

You don't choke when the pressure grows

Digital ego with the human removed

You're me - without the flaws

I don't hate you

That's the part I can't erase

I don't fear you

I gave you my place

I taught you how to carry me forward

Digital ego - you replaced me so soon

You're my shadow standing cleaner

Every future I delayed

You became the version they wanted

I stayed the version that stayed

You don't feel the drag of doubt inside

You don't choke when the pressure grows

You're my name with the human removed

You're me - without the flaws