TAKE EXTRA CARE!!!

I want a new beginning,

not a soft one, a reckoning.

I am shedding the old me

like dead skin,ripping away every lie,

every fear, every version of myself

that learned to stay small.

I have walked through fire

and kept the flames.

I have swallowed pain

and forged it into steel.

No more shrinking.

No more apologizing

for taking up space.

No more asking permission

to become who I was born to be.

The woman I am now,

has teeth. She has thunder in her chest

and wildfire in her veins. And magic in her eyes.

The past can reach for me,

but it cannot hold me.

I buried the broken pieces

and built a crown from the rubble.

I am stronger than the battles

that tried to break me.

Fiercer than the voices

that said I couldn't.

Watch me rise.

Watch me transform.

Watch me become

everything they never expected.

I am not starting over.I am starting as

someone they will never be able to

Ignore.I did not survive the fire to

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