Becoming
The slow work of becoming someone new—identity shifts, hard lessons, new boundaries, and the strange realization that survival eventually asks you to live again.
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At four in the morning, sleeplessness, moonlight, and cheesecake become the strange little ritual of a mind that refuses to power down.
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Other people will keep inventing versions of her; the page remains where she refuses to shrink herself to fit any of them.
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Love ruins poetry in the best way when one person begins haunting every metaphor, every page, and every unwritten name.
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A tender confession about carrying someone like a protected secret and wondering what they would do if they knew.
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Healing is not forgetting the past—it is learning to love the version of yourself who survived it and kept choosing tomorrow.
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A mother finally learns the medical name behind her daughter’s loss—and begins laying down guilt that was never hers to carry.
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A reflection on surviving loss, love, and every fracture that tried to make her disappear—and the stubborn part of her that kept reaching toward the light.
