I Don’t Look Like What I’ve Been Through,
I don’t look like the storms I survived,
I don’t look like the battles no one saw,
or the whispers of doubt I swallowed whole.

I am taller than my fears,
brighter than my scars,
and softer than the pain that tried to shape me.

I don’t look like what I’ve been through
because I’ve transformed it,
turned it into wings, into light, into laughter,
and into a heart that keeps dreaming
even when the world feels heavy.