"As I Am"
Don’t worship me.
Don’t fix me.
Don’t make me smaller so I’m easier to love.
I have built myself from silence and sharp things— held my own ribs in place when the world forgot my name.
But I still ache.
Quietly. Daily.
I don’t need saving.
I need seeing.
I need someone
who doesn’t flinch when I shatter,
who stays when I bleed in words instead of tears.
Hold on to me—
not because I’m perfect,
not because I make it easy,
but because you choose to.
Because even when I am too much,
too fierce,
too loud,
too undone—
I am still worthy of staying for.
