This Music hums around me

Softly

But the rain creates a silence

That allow the beats to break through

Noah Kahan’s “Northern Attitude” blares through the speakers

My ears capture the words instantly

Is this my sign

My call to go home

But how can I go home

When this also feels like home

There is gratitude in every word that I write

For the person I have become

But the person I was

The...

She is always happy

They observe

Her laugh contagious

Her smile

Is so bright

She wants to believe them

I am not the person you think I am

She says in the silence

Of her bedroom that feels too big

But suffocatingly small...