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You broke her.
She couldn’t go a day without crying.
But it wasn’t because she missed you.
It was because she missed herself.
She didn’t know where she was and it took forever to find her.
You suffocated her, nearly killed her.
But the crack of light she thought was blinding her
became the beckon of hope she never knew she needed.
She crumbled your jagged walls of isolation to the ground
and now nothing can constrain her.
You hate seeing her happy,
but that’s not anything new, is it?
Your weight no longer keeps her beneath you.
She’s always been stronger, better, worth more.
It’s a shame you knew before she did.
She could have avoided you all together.
We're expected to live in a glass box.

Clear enough for the world to see,

Small enough to conceal our dreams,

Fragile enough to make us scared to break.

They tell us,

"Outside the glass box,

Life is brutal"

But beautiful.

There's endless space for dreaming.

"And countless ways to fall"

Without reading in between the lines

Without looking within

The glass box of protected dreams

Appeals to those who don't dare to do better

But I dare you to look beyond your four walls

Feel the isolation.

Build the pressure.

Break out.

Explore.

Glass shards leave cuts

But they heel,

and turn into beautiful reminders of our story.
You strive to create. 

You don't accept failure as an option. 

I hold your toolbox as you build your empire.

I hand you one tool

and the next

and the next.

As I peer over your broad shoulder and gaze over the blueprints

Your throne stands alone.

I see your vision lacks a throne to your side

and I start to question

what your empire would be without your toolbox at reach.

— The End —