You cannot turn into somebody new

While clutching every fear you outgrew

A caterpillar cannot touch the sky

If all it does is crawl and hide

You learned to shrink to make love stay

Cut off your colors day by day

But flowers bent beneath a storm

Still dream of standing tall once more

Maybe the ache means something changed

Maybe your soul outgrew the cage

And every door that closed before

Was not your home to settle for

You were never “too much” to keep

They only loved you skin-deep

One day somebody’s gonna see

Every shattered part as poetry

And there are people searching now

For your strange heart and restless mouth

So stop reshaping who you are

For those who only loved in parts

“Be true to yourself so they find you fast”

Some words are built to last and last

’Cause somewhere underneath neon lights

Somebody’s praying for your kind tonight

Not the polished, careful disguise

Not the watered-down compromise

The real you with your chaos and grace

The trembling truth beneath your face

It takes courage just to stay revealed

To let your hidden corners breathe

But every mask that hits the floor

Leads the right people to your door

You were never “too much” to keep

They only loved you skin-deep

One day somebody’s gonna see

Every shattered part as poetry

And there are people searching now

For your strange heart and restless mouth

So stop reshaping who you are

For those who only loved in parts

No revenge

No bitter ending scenes

Somebody else gets your galaxies

The midnight talks, the fierce devotion

The hand still reaching through commotion

And one day you will finally learn

Real love does not require you to burn

You cannot grow with clipped-off wings

Or turn to gold while chained to things

So let the older version leave

And become who you were meant to be

’Cause there are souls who need your fire

Your crooked edges, strange desires

And they will love you as you are

Not halfway love in broken parts