How Dare You Make Me Human

I used to sleep like a stone. Frozen, untouchable,

Nothing could break me, nothing could pull me under.

Then you appeared like fire in a hallway,

Spoke my name like it was permission to collapse.

You weren't a person, you were a warzone,

Splitting open everything I thought was safe.

One touch and every secret I buried

Exploded like gasoline in a closed room.

I'm furious at the way you lit my pulse,

The way you taught my guard to trust.

Every room feels heavy, every corner waits

Without the damage you left kicking up dust.

How dare you make me human,

Just to walk away?

How dare you strip the armor off

Then leave me made of debris?

You set a match in my chest

And called it just a spark.

Now I'm crawling through the wreckage

Trying to find what's left of my heart.

How dare you make me human

Then abandon the pieces.

I hate the way I still check the door,

Knowing damn well you don't exist there anymore.

I hate how my body still leans to the right,

Like it's holding space for everything you took.

I hate that you turned my silence into noise,

Made my solitude feel like a stadium.

You cracked me open with practiced hands

Just to leave me gasping in the aftermath of yourself.

You taught me to feel without breaking

A cruel joke, because you left the cracks raw.

I gave you every unpretty truth,

The parts of me no one else had the patience to see.

How dare you make me human,

Just to walk away?

How dare you strip the armor off

Then leave me made of debris?

You set a match in my chest

And called it just a spark.

Now I'm crawling through the wreckage

Trying to find what's left of my heart.

How dare you make me human

Then abandon the pieces.

I want to hate you cleanly, but it's impossible.

You cling like static to my nerves,

Like a scream buried in my throat,

Like a cut in a place no one will ever know.

Some wounds don't bleed, they scream.

Some etched shapes don't heal, they claim you.

And you... you etched your shape inside me

And left me to burn slow, to rot, to rebuild.

How dare you make me human,

Show me what fire feels like

Then vanish like it was nothing,

Like every truth was disposable.

You rewired every heartbeat,

Then told me to move on.

I'm piecing myself together

From the ashes you left behind.

How dare you make me human

And leave me addicted to the pain.