Screaming Frequencies

They told me I was broken

Put a name on what I couldn’t say

Little white pills and careful questions

Like they could make the noise go away

But nobody told me there was a word

For carrying a stranger’s ache

For feeling every heart in the room

Every wound nobody could face

Now I know I’m not possessed

I’m not disappearing in my head

There’s a reason I can feel the weight

Of every word that’s left unsaid

I’m an empath

I hear the pain beneath your skin

Every heartbreak, every panic

Like it’s happening again

I can’t turn it off

Can’t find a switch, can’t make it stop

Every stranger is a frequency

And every frequency cuts deep

I’m an empath

And I can’t shut the world out

The grocery store is a battlefield

The subway shakes me to the bone

A thousand faces, a thousand stories

And somehow none of them feel unknown

Someone’s grieving in the checkout line

Someone’s dying behind a smile

Someone’s holding back a lifetime

And I feel it all for miles

So I hide inside my apartment

Let the whole world pass me by

But silence isn’t really silence

When you can hear what’s buried inside

I’m an empath

I hear the pain beneath your skin

Every heartbreak, every panic

Like it’s happening again

I can’t turn it off

Can’t find a switch, can’t make it stop

Every stranger is a frequency

And every frequency cuts deep

I’m an empath

And I can’t shut the world out

I tried the headphones

I tried the dark

I tried drowning out

The beating of my heart

I tried isolation

I tried being numb

I starved myself of everyone

But when the voices disappear

There’s nothing left to drown them out

And all the things I swallowed down

Come screaming through the quiet now

So don’t tell me I’m defective

Don’t tell me it’s all in my head

I’m just carrying what you couldn’t

I’m just feeling what you left unsaid

I’m an empath

And I feel the world like an open wound

Every sorrow, every secret

Every shadow in the room

I can’t turn it off

God, I wish I could turn it off

Every stranger is a frequency

Every frequency is screaming through me

I’m an empath

There’s nowhere I can hide

I can lock every door around me

But I can’t lock the world outside

I can’t turn it off

Can’t make the feeling stop

So I’ll carry every broken thing

Until there’s nothing left of me to hold

They told me I was broken.

Maybe I was never broken at all.

Maybe I just never learned

How to stop answering

When the world calls.