Common Denominator

“What’s so wrong with me?”

Thoughts from the unhealed side beg to be free

“I’m the common denominator”

But only to their feelings did I cater

Not mine

I consistently break my own heart

Holding back and too afraid to even start

Countless promises I’ve broken to myself

And hiding my heart up on a shelf

Where did it all go wrong?

Or did it go wrong?

Maybe it’s been the right lyrics but wrong song

Maybe there’s nothing wrong with me

Maybe the issue is with what I believed

But I still broke my own heart

I swore to never be like the ones who raised me

But how can that be?

Maybe I didn’t act like they did to another, no

But I still did it to me.