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I was seventeen and nowhere
No room, no key, no wall
A Michigan winter found me
With no one left to call
I learned where I could sleep
How to stay unseen
How to keep my hands from shaking
How to make it through the freeze
No one gave a speech
No one softened the fall
Some lessons come in silence
When nobody comes at all
When there was no one left to call
I learned to carry me
Quiet nights and colder sidewalks
Taught me how to breathe
I stopped waiting for rescue
Stopped asking life for fair
But somewhere in the winter
I was still becoming there
I did not feel brave back then
Just tired and awake
Making one more quiet choice
For one more morning’s sake
Self-reliance kept me living
But it taught my heart to hide
Made needing someone feel like weakness
Made rest feel unsafe inside
Now I’m learning slowly
Help is not a debt
And needing arms around me
Doesn’t make me less
When there was no one left to call
I learned to carry me
But I was never meant to hold
The whole world silently
I survived that winter
But I’m healing from it too
The cold became a chapter
Not the man I’m turning into
I had no place to land
So I learned to stand