Don't Let It Rot

Still here
Still breathing

The room still smells like yesterday
Like nothing ever broke
Your echo leans against the walls
Too close to let it go
Hands remember what the mind
Keeps asking to erase
Some love doesn't burn or vanish
It just stays in place

There's heat crawling under my skin
Looking for a name
If I let it speak too loudly
It won't sound like pain

Don't let it rot into hate
Don't let it sharpen my chest
What was real still deserves
More than venom and regret
I could tear you apart in my head
Feel powerful, feel relieved
But I won't turn love into a weapon
Just to prove I still bleed

Not like this
Not like me

Anger waits like it knows me
Knows exactly what to say
Promises a faster heartbeat
Promises I'll feel okay
Says: Make them the villain
Make it easy, make it loud
But missing you cuts quieter
And deeper than a shout

There's a voice that wants destruction
Calls it truth, calls it strength
But I've seen what survives the fire
And it's never what it claims

Don't let it rot into hate
Don't let it poison the past
Some wounds don't need a blade
Just time they're never asked
I could make you a monster tonight
And feel clean for a beat
But I won't turn love into a weapon
Just to stand on my feet

Say it
Say it would feel better
Say it would feel right
To turn memory into a target
And call it survival tonight
Break the frame
Rewrite the truth
Spit fire, feel tall
Forget what you knew

Still miss you
Still fighting it

Don't let it rot into hate
Let it hurt, let it ache
What we were doesn't deserve
To be buried in rage
I'll walk out shaking but whole
Bruised, but still intact
I won't turn love into a weapon
And I won't take that back

Some fires are meant to warm
Not consume