I don’t know how to fill the waking hours.
They arrive without instruction.
Morning asks for movement,
and the careful work of not breaking.
So I gather myself slowly—
the light learning how to enter.
It keeps moving even when I don’t,
even when I am busy stitching myself together
with habits that look like strength.
Some hours I wait for nothing,
just the feeling that I am still here,
to be seen without explanation.
I spend the day holding everything in place,
balancing loss with routine,
calling survival a shape I can live inside.
And when night finally softens the edges,
I let go of the performance.