I'm a ghost in the group chat, seen but never heard

Typing out a sentence, then deleting every word

I watch the conversations flow like water down a drain

A silent observer in a hurricane of the mundane

They're planning parties I won't attend, sharing jokes I'll never get

Building up a world where I don't seem to fit

I'm the green dot glowing, a presence and a threat

A monument to everything they'd rather just forget

And late at night I scroll through faces I once knew

Wondering if they ever see me staring through the blue

I'm a GHOST IN THE GROUP CHAT

Nobody knows where I'm really at

I'm screaming into pillows made of code and glass and light

But nobody can hear me in the middle of the night

I'm a GHOST IN THE GROUP CHAT

I used to have a voice that filled a room with sound

Now I measure out my worth in likes on holy ground

I curate my existence in a grid of tiny squares

Hoping that the algorithm finally cares

But algorithms don't have hearts, they only have a goal

To keep me scrolling, keep me empty, keep me paying toll

And every time I post a piece of who I want to be

The ghost inside the group chat grows a little more like me

I see them all together in a photo from last week

And I'm the phantom limb they didn't even seek

I'm a GHOST IN THE GROUP CHAT

Nobody knows where I'm really at

I'm screaming into pillows made of code and glass and light

But nobody can hear me in the middle of the night

I'm a GHOST IN THE GROUP CHAT

Tonight I'm leaving the chat

Not with a bang

Just a quiet exit

A ghost finally moving on