Woke Up in Goodbye

I used to make myself smaller just so you could feel tall. I blame my heart for loving when

you felt nothing at all. I stay quiet through the damage, smiled while I was

torn. Didn't know that all this breaking was the place where I'd be born.

I cried alone at midnight, asking mirrors what I lacked. Didn't see that

every tear was building strength I packed. You thought I'd fade, you thought I'd

fall, that I'd beg you to return. But I learned my value fast from

every lesson that burned. You didn't break me, woke me up.

I found my power in goodbye. I turned my pain into a crown. I learned how wings