There Were Things I Needed to Hear Earlier

You spent years believing survival meant becoming smaller for everyone else.
For the versions of us that still linger.

You spent years believing survival meant becoming smaller for everyone else.

Not every ending arrives with an apology, an explanation, or a final conversation.

Outgrowing old versions of yourself sometimes means outgrowing entire rooms full of people too.

What once felt exciting eventually started feeling familiar in all the wrong ways.

There are people who call your boundaries betrayal because they only benefited from your silence.