The sky does not always thunder, some days it only hums— a low lullaby in pastel blue, resting on your windowpane.
There is beauty in stillness, like dew-beads clinging to a spider’s thread, fragile, glimmering, unseen but alive.
You are not late. The garden blooms when it’s ready— not a moment before. Even the moon takes its time to become full.
So let yourself be tired. Let the ache sit beside you. It will not stay forever. It knows you’re learning, and learning is slow.
One day, the breath in your chest will feel like enough. The dawn will no longer feel like a beginning you’ve missed. You’ll sip morning light and say, I made it.
Not with fanfare, not with fire— but with soft feet on soft earth, and a heart that chose to stay.