Layer by layer, time buries it deep

Million years of pressure while I sleep

What I felt once turned to stone beneath

Fossilized emotions, calcified belief

Every year another layer forms

Dust and ash from everything that hurt

Compressed so tight I can't recall

What lived before the fall

Deep beneath where light can't reach

The bones of who I used to be

Sediment and time, that's all I am

Ancient pain compressed into the sand

If love was real, it's stone now, set in place

I'm geological, fossilized, erased

They dig me up and put me on display

Label what I felt in some museum case"Here's the heart that broke in the Mesozoic age""Here's the hope that died and turned to clay"

Every excavation just reveals

How deep the layers go, how nothing heals

Time doesn't fix, it just adds more weight

Til you're a monument to your mistakes

Deep beneath where light can't reach

The bones of who I used to be

Sediment and time, that's all I am

Ancient pain compressed into the sand

If love was real, it's stone now, set in place

I'm geological, fossilized, erased

Sixty million years from now

Someone finds what's left of me

Studies how I lived and died

Makes theories about things they'll never see

But I know the truth they can't extract

Some things don't fossilize, they just go black

The soft parts rot, only hardness stays

The bones remember but the heart decays

Sediment and time, that's all that's left

Ancient pain that turned to stone through depth

If love existed, it eroded clean

I'm just layers now, stuck in between

Nothing soft survives the pressure down

Only what was hard is ever found

I am geological, fossilized, complete

Just sediment and time beneath your feet

Layer by layer, deeper still I go

Till even I forget what's buried below