Mending Stars

Slipped on words I didn’t mean
In a flash you looked at me
Like I was someone else
It’s scary how one broken thing
Can blur the lines between heaven and hell
You saw the crack and called it truth
But not the hundred times I bled for you
We’re more than just the mess we make
Aren’t we

Yeah, you, me
Glitched out heartbeat can’t undo
Every shade you paint me through
You hold the frame but miss the view
That wasn’t all of me

No, I stumble sure but I show up
Even when I feel not enough
Don’t freeze the tape where I messed up
That wasn’t all of me

I hope I’m not my weakest moment
The part you play back when you’re broken
A flash of rage a word I misspoke and
Suddenly that’s who I am
I hope you see the nights I held you
Not just the ones I failed to
We’re all just learning in slow motion
So I hope I’m not my weakest moment

Maybe grace is hard to give
When pain’s the only lens you’re looking through
But if you could rewind it
You’d see I cracked from trying to be true
We hurt the most the ones we trust
And heal the slowest when it’s us
Don’t write me off before I’ve grown
I won’t leave you alone

Glitched out heartbeat can’t undo
Every shade you paint me through
You hold the frame but miss the view
That wasn’t all of me

No, I stumble sure but I show up
Even when I feel not enough
Don’t freeze the tape where I messed up
That wasn’t all of me

I hope I’m not my weakest moment
The part you play back when you’re broken
A flash of rage a word I misspoke and
Suddenly that’s who I am
I hope you see the nights I held you
Not just the ones I failed to
We’re all just learning in slow motion
So I hope I’m not my weakest moment

We’re fragments we’re flickers
We’re bruises we’re pictures
If you saw the whole reel
Would you feel it different

Or am I
Trapped in
Your pause

I hope I’m not my weakest moment
Not just the scene when I was broken
We’re made of light and cracks and poems
So don’t call that my end
I hope you see the fire I carried
Even when the weight got heavy
I’m more than just the storm I’m caught in
Please don’t make that my only moment