There was a time when my laughter was real, when my dreams were bright, when my heart was whole. But I don’t know where that version of me went, and I fear she’s never coming back.
A feather fell from the dusk, carried by whispers only trees could trust.
The sky wore a bruise of fading gold,
and time held its breath, just once,
as if the world forgot to spin and I, for a moment, belonged to nothing
but the hush between two heartbeats.
I shape myself into everything they might need,
erase the parts that feel too loud, too heavy, too much,
and still, I watch them choose people who never had to beg to be noticed.
I wake up every day with a weight in my chest and still choose to stand, not because it’s easy, but because I don’t know how to give up without shattering.