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Yeah…
You ever loved someone so deeply
you forgot the sound of your own heartbeat?
I know.
But even the gentlest heart wasn’t made to disappear.

Love shouldn’t sound like silence,
shouldn’t feel like holding your breath
just to keep the peace a little longer.

Love should be gentle hands,
not hands that press your voice down.
It should be warmth
not the cold that teaches you to apologize for existing.

You weren’t made to bow,
you were made to bloom,
to unfold like a sunrise no one can dim.
If someone needs you small so they can feel tall,
that’s not love…
that’s fear wearing your tenderness like a shield.

You’re not a shadow following someone else’s step,
you’re a whole horizon,
a sky they forgot to look up and admire.

You weren’t made to bow,
you weren’t made to fall quiet
just to keep someone else from breaking.
Your fire is soft,
your voice is gentle
but gentle doesn’t mean weak.
And if your light hurts them…
maybe they were never ready for a love this real.

Closeness should feel like home,
not like a room you must shrink yourself to fit in.
“Care” shouldn’t come with chains,
and “love” shouldn’t ask you to fold your wings.

You have the right to speak,
the right to be held without being muted,
the right to be loved in full color
not in the grayscale someone else demands.

And the truth is…
some people aren’t afraid of losing you,
they’re afraid of losing the version of you
they could control.

But you
you are galaxies moving,
a tide that pulls the moon closer,
a softness shaped like strength.

Love shouldn’t dim that.
Love should stand beside it.
Love should say,
“Stay bright, I can handle the warmth.”

Don’t let tired hands redraw your worth,
don’t let frightened hearts tell you your love is “too much.”
If “love” makes you shrink,
makes you ache,
makes you disappear
that isn’t love, darling…
that’s heartbreak wearing a promise.

I don’t break, I breathe,
I rise through the cracks like flowers through concrete.
You rise too
quiet, brave, endlessly.

They call your love “too much”?
But real love is always big
always spilling out of the edges.
It’s the small hearts that fear the overflowing.

You’re not a whisper
you’re the echo of every truth you stopped saying
just to keep from hurting someone who hurt you first.
You’re not a drop
you’re the whole ocean learning
you never needed permission to wave.

If they drown in your depth,
that’s not your fault.
You weren’t made to stay shallow.

My flow quick,
my words soft,
my heart honest
like “who told you that shrinking was the price of being loved?”

You’re fire, they wax,
you’re dawn, they fade,
you’re the storm with a heart that still wants to love
even after the sky breaks.

And that…
that’s the kind of love only the brave deserve.

You weren’t made to bow,
weren’t made to hide the beauty in your voice.
You are tenderness with thunder behind it,
you are truth with a heartbeat.
And if they can’t stand beside that
then they were never meant to hold a heart like yours.

You’re not small.
You’re not meant to hide.
You’re not the echo.
You’re the song.
And you’re still fire…
the kind that warms,
not burns.


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