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I was eight when the light went quiet
Same walls, but not the same home
Love had favorites in the room
And I learned where I stood alone
I was not loud or cruel
I just became hard to see
Invisible felt safer there
Than asking who would notice me
Hunger taught me how to wait
Fear taught me how to read the air
I called it strength back then
But I was only surviving there
I learned to survive too young
To quiet every need
To carry what a child should never
Have to hold alone to breathe
I learned to expect less love
And make silence feel like peace
But the years that taught me fear
Did not take the heart from me
No one asked how I was doing
So I became my own way through
My own teacher, my own shelter
My own proof that I could move
Now I know those reactions
Were memories in disguise
A body bracing for the moment
Before my mind knew why
I learned to survive too young
But survival is not all
The years that made me brace
Could not make my heart grow small
I am learning I can need
And still be strong
A child can learn survival
And still become someone new