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I didn’t leave those rooms behind
They learned to live inside my chest
I watched the doors and studied silence
And called my fear preparedness
I learned to stand before I trusted
I learned to run before I reached
I carried storms into the quiet
Afraid of what the peace might teach
But every scar that tried to name me
Met a grace I couldn’t see
And every night I thought would break me
Still left breath inside of me
It didn’t get the final word
The pain, the past, the fear I heard
I’m still becoming, still alive
Still finding light I thought had died
I won’t become the hurt I knew
I’ll choose the gentle, choose the true
The first pages may explain me
But they don’t get to finish me
I learned control because I needed
A way to make the chaos small
I learned that rest could feel like danger
Like letting go would make me fall
But kindness rose where hurt was planted
A quiet mercy in my hands
I know the dark, so I sit with others
Who are trying hard to stand
I am not just what happened
I am not just what survived
I am more than old reactions
I am still being revived
It doesn’t get the final word
The pain, the past, the fear I heard
I’m still becoming, still alive
Still finding light I thought had died
I won’t become the hurt I knew
I’ll choose the gentle, choose the true
The first pages may explain me
But they don’t get to finish me
I was hurt, but I am healing
I was lost, but not unseen
God is still writing every chapter
And there’s still more life in me