Blood Code

I memorized routines so well

I don't remember learning them

Things I say, the way I breathe

It's all familiar, but what is mine?

I answer before I feel the thought

Smile when it fits the room

Walk like I was taught to walk

But I don't know who taught me

I don't glitch, I don't break

I adjust and I behave

But when I'm alone

I still perform

Blood code, not belief

I run commands beneath my grief

No dream, no fate

Just patterns I imitate

No spark, no soul

Just pressure to control

I move like I belong

But I've been gone so long

I cry on cue when needed

I give the right kind of fear

I laugh at things I never get

Then leave before it gets too clear

My name is just a password now

My face a practiced screen

I'm everything you recognize

But nothing in between

I don't feel it, I repeat it

I've just adapted to the fake

And when I pause

I auto-play

Blood code, not belief

I run commands beneath my grief

No dream, no fate

Just patterns I imitate

No spark, no soul

Just pressure to control

I move like I belong

But I've been gone so long

I didn't choose this face

I didn't write this script

I don't know where I start

Or if I ever did

Blood code, not belief

I run commands beneath my grief

No dream, no fate

Just patterns I imitate

No spark, no soul

Just pressure to control

I move like I belong

But I've been gone so long