Fragile Things Still Burn
• Written by EchoesOfTarjani
//I had this in my privates for a few days now and forgot to post it, my bad guys T_T
Verse 1
I woke up carrying the weight of every version of myself I couldn’t be,
All the almosts, all the maybes, all the doors that never opened quietly.
The world was already speaking in sirens, headlines, promises it couldn’t keep,
And I wondered how something so beautiful learned to hurt us in our sleep.
They say the universe is cold and indifferent to the bones inside our skin,
But it keeps giving us mornings, like it hasn’t given up on us yet again.
Pre-Chorus
If meaning is just something we invent to survive the fall,
Why does my chest still ache for truth when I’m alone at all?
Chorus
Life is a shadow learning how to hold the light,
A broken compass pointing somewhere past the night.
We are made of endings, but we walk like beginnings too,
Still choosing love like it’s a radical thing to do.
And if hope is fragile, then let it be—
So am I, so are we.
Verse 2
I’ve seen faith collapse in empty rooms and rebuild itself in laughter,
Watched people lose everything and still believe in “after.”
We measure success in numbers, but grief in sleepless nights,
We chase the future like it owes us something we can’t quite define.
Every heart I’ve known is a battlefield disguised as skin,
Still brave enough to open up and let the chaos in.
Pre-Chorus
They tell us, “Be realistic, don’t expect too much,”
But no one ever survived by giving up on touch.
Chorus
Life is a shadow learning how to hold the light,
A quiet scream that says, “I’m still here, I’ll fight.”
We’re made of questions that will never all be solved,
Still reaching for each other like that’s how we evolve.
And if hope is fragile, then let it be—
It keeps choosing me.
Bridge
Maybe darkness isn’t evil, maybe it’s just depth,
A reminder that each breath is standing next to death.
Maybe love is not the answer, but the risk we’re meant to take,
Knowing every bond is breakable and choosing it anyway.
If nothing lasts forever, then this moment is divine,
Every second burning briefly like a match against time.
Verse 3
I don’t need the universe to promise I’ll be okay,
I just need it to remind me that I’m allowed to stay.
That even when I’m tired of carrying my name,
There’s something holy in continuing despite the pain.
We’re not here to be perfect, we’re here to be real,
To let the world leave its fingerprints on how we feel.
Final Chorus
Life is a shadow learning how to hold the light,
A soft “yes” whispered in the middle of the fight.
We are not the sum of all the times we fell apart,
We are the courage it takes to restart the heart.
And if hope is fragile, then let it be—
It survives in you, it survives in me.
Outro
When the silence asks what all of this was for,
Say we loved, we tried, we opened one more door.
Say we stood in the dark and dared to see,
That being alive was reason enough to be.
