The Audacity (Intro)

I've smiled through silence so loud
It could've split me in two.
Clapped for others
While praying somebody-anybody-would clap for me.
But baby...
I don't wait for applause anymore.
I am the ovation.

I've carried pain in pretty packages,
Made suffering look like Sunday's best.
But the truth?
I was bleeding in luxury.
And nobody noticed but me.

But I see me now.
All of me.
The healed.
The hidden.
The hell I crawled through to become her.
The version of me that said,
"I ain't dying in the same place I broke."

So no, this ain't ego.
This is evidence.
Evidence that I kept showing up
Even when I didn't know who I was showing up for.

This is for every mirror I avoided.
Every boundary I bent.
Every time I stayed when I should've let go.
I forgive her.
But I no longer live in her.

Because now?
I wake up with the audacity
To take up space
To be soft without explanation
To be powerful without apology
To be...
HER.

This is... the audacity to be her...
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