I am closing, I can feel it,
I can see it so clearly in my mind...
It's like a cocoon around my heart,
that is getting thicker with each passing day.

I feel like I've opened my heart so much,
and now I feel vulnerable and unprotected.
I feel like I've given so much,
that now I'm drained...

I have nothing else in me.
I gave everything... and yet it's not enough...
People want me to be something I am not.
I can't do that, I won't.

People expect me to be polite,
to help them when they don't ask for help,
to think like them, to act like them,
to be like them... And I won't!

I can be patient, and tolerant,
but I want the same for me.
Should I tell them the things they criticize in me
are the same they lack of?

So now I'm closing...
I don't want to, but I think I need to protect myself,
cause nobody will do it for me,
And I am too afraid of being hurt.

I've been hurt so many times...
And I'm exausted.
I wonder if I ever had hurt someone so badly,
that now I deserve the same...

So now I'm retreating...
I feel so tempted to get back to my old ways,
even tough I know it's not the best...
That cocoon around my heart is getting thicker each day.