growth
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Becoming means naming who she is now without softening it, and deciding which old versions no longer get to come along.
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Some feelings live between grief, longing, relief, and fear—too complicated for one word and too real to ignore.
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While adults count scars and hard days, a child finds music in an ordinary afternoon and dances anyway.
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An unfinished sentence becomes a declaration of everything survival, grief, motherhood, and becoming have made her.
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Home stops being a place when one person becomes the quiet safety every road had been trying to lead toward.
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A repeating cycle of hurt, apology, hope, and return finally breaks when she stops waiting for the next apology to save it.
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Sorry kept arriving like a bandage over the same wound until she learned an apology is not an ending when the storm always returns.
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A woman sits beneath a flood of cruelty and realizes the person someone is trying to break has already survived far worse storms.
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Sunlight pours across an old church and turns weathered walls into a quiet reminder that cracked souls can still hold something holy.
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She no longer wants a love that consumes her—only one that helps her return to herself.
Between Bruises & Blooms 