Still Here, Still Me

I didn't let many people in back then. I learned real

young how to hold my breath. I said I was fine when I wasn't okay.

Just trying to get through another day. I talked in pieces,

never the whole. Didn't trust the quiet inside my soul. But you stayed

steady when I pulled away. Never tried to fix me, just let me

say. You didn't promise answers or light. You just stayed present in the

night. Somehow that was enough to breathe, enough to start believing in me.

I was carrying weight I didn't show. Trying to stand when I felt