Final Cut

I’ll be damned if I stop fighting 

I’m fighting for me 

I’ll be damned if I stop crying

My tears set me free

I wanted to make you mine 

They’re right when they say love is blind 

Even when you didn’t want to define 

I still didn’t take it as a sign

I’ll cut you out 

Before you cut me off 

Taking the scissors to my life

I’m done playing your wife

I wanted to make you see

I gave you every part of me 

Even when you didn’t open up

I still thought we were meant to be

Don’t try to edit the past 

and tell me it wasn’t real 

Even though it didn’t last 

I still know what I feel

I’ll cut you out 

Before you cut me off 

Taking the scissors to my life

I’ll never be your wife

I’m moving out

I’m moving on

I’m going out

I’m going off

I’m coming out

I’m coming up

I’m crying out

I’m lighting up

I will never stop fighting 

I’m fighting for me 

I will never stop writing 

I’ve scripted you out, you see

I will never stop

I’m writing for me

In the new plot,

I’m all of me

— Raederle

August 22nd 2026, 9:00am

Original Draft: September 2nd 2025