Something Needs To Change

I set the table, poured the tea
Smiled the smile that everyone needs
Checked the boxes, held the line
But something underneath feels like a sign
I can't name it, can't explain
Just this quiet, restless ache
Like the life I've lived is someone else's dream
And I'm standing at the seam

I'm not broken, I'm not lost
I'm just waking up to what this has cost
And the woman in the mirror seems to say
Something needs to change

Something needs to change
I don't know what, I don't know how
But I feel it in my bones right now
Something needs to change
Not the world out there, but deep in me
There's a life that's waiting to be free
Something needs to change

I've read the books, I've done the work
Sat with wisdom, prayed through hurt
I understand so much, and yet
I'm still the last one that I let
Be seen, be held, be fully known
I keep arriving — but never home

I'm not asking for the answers yet
I'm just finally done with the forgetting
And the woman in the mirror seems to say
Something needs to change

Something needs to change
I don't know what, I don't know how
But I feel it in my bones right now
Something needs to change
Not the world out there, but deep in me
There's a life that's waiting to be free
Something needs to change

Maybe this is where it starts
Not with certainty, but with an open heart
Maybe the not-knowing is the door
Maybe I was made for something more
And it's okay to stand here, in between
The woman that I was and who I'm meant to be

Something needs to change
I don't know what, I don't know how
But I feel it in my bones right now
Something needs to change
Not the world out there, but deep in me
There's a life that's waiting to be free
Something needs to change

You don't have to have the answer.
You just have to be honest enough to say it.
Something needs to change.
And that's enough to begin.