There’s this whisper I hear when I’m alone
The one that fills me with uncertainty
If I try hard enough to push it away I can pretend it’s not there
Surround myself with people to drown out the noise and I feel almost normal
Only, it never truly left
Waiting in the shadows of my mind, lurking until it knows I have nowhere to escape
And it grows
It echoes in my ears until I’m consumed by the lies it tells
Those are the moments I long for the time it was only
A whisper